“The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.”

—  Martha Graham

I Am A Dancer (1952)

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American dancer and choreographer 1894–1991

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