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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Martha Graham
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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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Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
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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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Misery is a communicable disease.
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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 center of the stage is where I am.
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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 fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
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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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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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