Martha Graham Quotes
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one.
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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.
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Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life.
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One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.
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The only sin is mediocrity.
