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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.

Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Body Dance Hide Language
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
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
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Beautiful Challenge Communication Dance Greatness Inevitable
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
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
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 reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
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
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
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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Choice Dance Life People Yourself
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Dance Exception Freedom Secret
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
If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Communication Depression Face Feeling Misery Sick
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
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

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