Martha Graham Quotes

The only sin is mediocrity.

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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I've always admired sharks because they have a dimension of intelligence that is somewhat unique to that animal, and especially a great white. A great white has this organ called an ampullae of Lorenzini, and it can actually sense electromagnetic disturbances.

Jim Toomey

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I drive a Lincoln Town Car.

Jerry Jones

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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Roger Ebert

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I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

Judy Greer

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To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Donald Sutherland

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'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Christian Bale

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I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Corey Haim

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We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.

Tino Sehgal

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What is obvious is that Donald Trump is comfortable with an approach to running his presidency based on what worked for him in the private sector.

Richard N. Haass

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I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

Mark Carwardine

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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Mark Zuckerberg

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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

James Tobin

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