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Quote by Isadora Duncan
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

Other quotes by Isadora Duncan

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. – Isadora Duncan

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Art
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Isadora Duncan
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. – Isadora Duncan

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Experience
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Isadora Duncan
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

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Theater
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Isadora Duncan
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Dance, Dancing
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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. – Isadora Duncan

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Dance, Dancing

Nothing is more revealing than movement. – Martha Graham

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Dance, Dancing

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. – Martha Graham

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Dance, Dancing

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. – Lord Chesterfield

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Dance, Dancing

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Now that Im more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that Ive bad to become more aware of my body. Since Ive chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-Ive been used to it for years, so its no problem. And theres nothing I cant do. – Dana Hill

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Love prefers twilight to daylight. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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