Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
MARTHA GRAHAMI 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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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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