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"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
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"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."

"I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again."

"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."

"In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study."

"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."

"I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner."

"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic."

"Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure."

"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth."
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"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."


"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."


"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."


"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."


"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."


"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."


"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."


"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
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