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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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Gold
Leadership
Fire
Strong
Ballet
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Men
Adversity

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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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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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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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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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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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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
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I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
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We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
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Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
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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.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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