Martha Graham Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.
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I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
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I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
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...Their problem was not that they failed to believe in God; it was that they did not know God; it was that they did not know God. It took only one generation for that knowledge to be lost. But it’s also true that what can be lost in one generation can also be restored in one generation
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You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
