Quote by Isadora Duncan
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. – 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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. – 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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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. – David Byrne

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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. – Christopher Morley

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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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I just put my feet in the air and move them around. – Fred Astaire

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