Martha Graham Quotes
Many times I hear the phrase 'the dance of life'. It is an expression that touches me deeply, for the instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived - the human body.
Quotes to Explore
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Where there is love there is life.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
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There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
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Thoughts shut up want air,And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
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Many times I hear the phrase 'the dance of life'. It is an expression that touches me deeply, for the instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived - the human body.
