No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
MARTHA GRAHAM
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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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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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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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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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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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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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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