Martha Graham Quotes
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I'm trying my best.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
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Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
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How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
