The center of the stage is where I am.
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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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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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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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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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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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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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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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 spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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