You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
MARTHA GRAHAMWhat people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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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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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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