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Martha Graham Quotes: It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.
         

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.


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The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

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Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.



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Misery is a communicable disease.



Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers 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.



No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.





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