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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
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Ballet Dancer
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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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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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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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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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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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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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head look at the way the hairline grows think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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The center of the stage is where I am.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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