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

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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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You need to get in touch with your body … do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone whos coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you dont have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff. – Jacqueline Bisset

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. – Kahlil Gibran

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