Quote by Isadora Duncan
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the contin

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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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

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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

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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

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Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. – Howard Barker

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Theater

I just love, I love, I love movies. – Laura Dern

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