Martha Graham Quotes
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
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I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
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For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care - it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.
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I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
