I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permittin…

Martha Graham
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable. ✨ Martha Graham Google Doodle Celebrates the Dancer and Choreographer's 117th Birthday by Laura Roberts, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 11, 2011.
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