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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

Martha Graham

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
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Inspirational Ourselves Perspective Start Wings
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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Action Energy Expression Force Life Quick Translation Unique
Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance Man Soul
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Dance Essence Expression Feeling Hope Human Myself Soul Wonderful
The unique must be fulfilled.
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Fulfillment One Liner Unique
You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance Inspirational Style Yourself
I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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Believe Dedication Intellectual Learning Oneself Performance Practice Satisfaction Spirit
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Artist Deep One Liner
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Children Darkness Time
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion Technique
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Celebration Dance Growth Hands Mirror Thinking Time Way Yourself
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
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dance Exception Freedom Secret
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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Important Live Moments Notice Time Worth

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

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