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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
Dance
Belief
Firsts
First
Believe

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One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
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I don't think in art there is ever a precedent each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
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Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
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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 body says what words cannot.
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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Theater used to be a verb it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
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I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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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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You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
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Discipline is liberation.
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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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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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