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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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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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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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The body says what words cannot.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
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Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
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I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory
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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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It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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I believe that we learn by practice.
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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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