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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.


Martha Graham

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MARTHA MCSALLY Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means havi...
MARTHA BECK The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting.
MARTHA REEVES People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit...
MARTHA REEVES Dancing in the Streets.
MARTHA REEVES Him being hands-on helped us all prosper.
MARTHA REEVES Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worr...
MARTHA BECK We go through a rigorous vetting process of products before they even get to Martha.
MARTHA STEWART Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams....
MARTHA BECK Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is...
MARTHA BECK We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the th...
MARTHA DAVIS