I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
MARTHA GRAHAMWherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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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Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I’d rather have them against me than indifferent.
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Dance is the landscape of man’s soul.
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.
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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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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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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 force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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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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