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Great Quotes by Martha Graham
- You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety…
- 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…
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
- Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
- 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…
- It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more…
- To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of…
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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