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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

Martha Graham

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Animal Body Human See Ugly
I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Believe Discipline God Principle Technique Thinking Word
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
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Desire Invitation Perfection Practice
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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Dance End Ideas Myself Pattern Start
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
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Business People Thinking World Yourself
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Connection Discover Earth Heaven Law Lying Movement
We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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Creativity Lost Pattern Time Unique
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Children Darkness Time
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Believe Day Future Myself Past Time
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Growth Inspirational Remember Stand Wings
Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Acceptance Age Glory Maturity Time
Discipline is liberation.
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Discipline Liberty One Liberty
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance Heart Measurement
Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dance Man Soul

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