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.
MARTHA GRAHAMDancers 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.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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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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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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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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The body says what words cannot.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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