"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."
-Martha Graham
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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.“
-Martha Graham
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"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
-Martha Graham
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"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."
-Martha Graham
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"The body is a sacred garment."
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
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