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Quote by Isadora Duncan
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn

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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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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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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Dance, Dancing
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Isadora Duncan
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. – W. Somerset Maugham

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His soul palpitating with love of art… – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919 [referring to Dirk Stroeve &mda

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope

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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but Ive just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that its not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

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