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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.

Martha Graham

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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Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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Aware Light Myself Sun
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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Body Dance Hide Language
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Body Dance Listening Movement Myself Necessary Pay Terrible
The unique must be fulfilled.
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Fulfillment One Liner Unique
The center of the stage is where I am.
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Artist Attention Myself Place Stage
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Dance Greatness Inspirational Passion Technique
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Death Live Ourselves Past People Time
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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Affirmation Aware Dance Function Live Mystery Wonderful
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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Dance Essence Expression Feeling Hope Human Myself Soul Wonderful
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Believe Day Future Myself Past Time
Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Acceptance Age Glory Maturity Time
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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Desire Face Faith Invitation Obstacle Perfection Performance Practice Vision
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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Ambition Enough Fact Fulfill Lost Necessary World Yourself
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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Dance Meaning Movement Passion Technique
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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Important Live Moments Notice Time Worth
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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Bone Dance Day Hard People Start Work Yourself
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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Dance God Message
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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Choice Dance Life People Yourself
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance Discipline Freedom Liberty Technique
The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
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Body Life Respect Sacred Treat Yourself
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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Class Dance Learning Practice Yourself
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Business People Thinking World Yourself
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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Excuse Man Oneself Reason Willing
The body says what words cannot.
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Body One Liner Word
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Dance Joy Pain Song

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