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Martha Graham

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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Action Block Force Quick Translation World Yourself
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Exposure Movement Reveal
The unique must be fulfilled.
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Fulfillment One Liner Unique
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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Dance Dedication Greatness Inspirational Passion
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Artist Deep One Liner
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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Dance Evitable Fear Happiness Intense Life
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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Dance Fall Inspirational Myself
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Boredom Happiness Repeat
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Desire Invitation Perfection Practice
The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.
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Act Expression Thinking True
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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Death Live Ourselves Past People Time
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Dance Dedication Holy Inspirational One Liner Passion Place Stand
The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Body Life Respect Sacred Treat Yourself
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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Business Compare Determination Direction Expression Value Yourself
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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Ambition Enough Fact Fulfill Lost Necessary World Yourself
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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Dance Meaning Movement Passion Technique
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Art Body Creature Dance Instrument Yourself
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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Care Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Alive Feeling Intense Myself People
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Beautiful Dance Delicate Forget Miracle Strength
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Magic Miracle Small Yourself
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance Discipline Freedom Liberty Technique

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