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Some of you are doomed to be artists.

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
Doomed
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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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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
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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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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
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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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...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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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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The center of the stage is where I am.
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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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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The unique must be fulfilled.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
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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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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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