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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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
First
Believe
Dance
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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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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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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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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