"People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life."

-- Martha Graham

#People Quotes #Dancer Quotes #Chosen Quotes

“Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.”
“If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more desirous of purchase, more efficient — or just plain happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.”

Source : "Designing for People".
“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.”
“He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.”
“The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.”
“To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer”
“[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.”
“We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.”

Source : Interview, 1982.

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