Martha Graham Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
