Martha Graham Quotes

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991

Topics

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'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

Matthew Scully

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I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

Ann Voskamp

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Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

John Surtees

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I will always be grateful to Madrid. I never said a bad word about anybody there. Everyone there, even the president, treated me really well always.

Alvaro Morata

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We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.

Sienna Miller

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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

Ruth Rendell

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We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.

Louis Theroux

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Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.

Dennis Farina

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I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Diablo Cody

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If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

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Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.

Anthony Scaramucci

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