Martha Graham Quotes

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means…

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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Man
  • Dying

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Important
  • Freedom

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Trophy

• Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Need
  • Flying

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Liberty
  • Generation
  • Times

• When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Help
  • Never
  • Champion

• Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Me
  • Everything
  • Now

• If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Better
  • Novel
  • Sure

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Responsibility
  • English

• 'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time

• I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Different
  • Real
  • Meaning

• Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means…

  

  Martha Graham