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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan
Savage
Me
Jazz
Believe
Monstrous
Seems
Primitive
America
Anyone
Rhythm
Should
Expresses
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan
People
Other
Bit
Mad
He
Perhaps
Person
Different
Little
Really
Sympathetic
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
Work
Beautiful
Art
Hard Work
Me
Struggle
Writing
Simple
Gesture
Research
Enough
Would
About
Write
Take
Taken
Concentrated
Know
Make
Learn
Years
Effort
Sentence
Realize
Hard
Many
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
Grace
School
Free
Long
Too
Type
Dancer
Spirit
Supple
Never
Real
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Affected
Walking
American
Legs
Toe
Body
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
Experience
Thought
First
Highly
Performance
Always
Matrimony
Ends
Which
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
Jacques d'Amboise
Great
Me
Dancer
Carpet
Out
Could
Put
Knew
Know
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
If I Could
Act
Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.
Jacques d'Amboise
Become
Before
Teens
Later
Introduced
Would
Through
Had
Been
Years
Legendary
Artists
Who
Exposed
A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
Jacques d'Amboise
Art
Youth
Wild
Through
Nobility
Learns
I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.
Jaime Pressly
Time
People
Remember
Old
Dance
Three
First
Big
Yesterday
Stage
Our
Hundred
Performed
Like
First Time
Audience
Doing
Were
Years
Green
Frog
Public
Little
Us
Routine
Four
Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy.
Jaime Pressly
Brothers
Through
Like
Gotten
Lee
Them
Pregnancy
Jason
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
Jaime Pressly
Work
You
Be Happy
Together
Happy
Old
Parents
Miserable
Kid
Kids
Would
Stay
Rather
Like
Know
Around
Up
Than
Just
Want
Separate
Old Thing
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
Two
Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.
Jaime Pressly
You
Determination
Kind
Like
Rhythm
Teach
We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
Jaime Pressly
You
Baggage
Deal
Question
I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.
Jaime Pressly
Design
Had
Always
Loved
Interest
Creating
Things
I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.
Jaime Pressly
Mom
Old
Since
Because
Years
Wanted
Worked
Hard
Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.
Jaime Pressly
Saying
Great
You
People
Everybody
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Could
Invisible
Know
Were
Sneak
Being
Places
Watch
The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.
Jaime Pressly
Love
Truth
Me
Truth Is
Rest
Baby
Bits
Killer
Hated
Being
Biggest
Pregnancy
Sucked
Fat
I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.
Jaime Pressly
Women
Lonely
Rich
Angeles
Never
Know
Los
Los Angeles
Lot
Very
Wanted
Them
Successful
So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.
Jaime Pressly
Lonely
Partner
Become
Baby
Out
Having
Miss
End
Up
Going
Just
Hollywood
Then
Successful
Many
Keep
Actress
I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.
Jaime Pressly
Before
Group
Musical
Perform
Were
Dolls
Used
Nicole
I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.
Jaime Pressly
Life
You
Change
World
Fear
No Fear
Country
Baby
Changes
Had
Performing
Around
Go
Then
Your
Used
Sudden
World Changes
I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.
Jaime Pressly
Thought
Parents
Own
Later
Strong-Willed
My Own
Outside
Had
Idea
Box
Felt
Years
Off
Contract
Very
Just
Japan
Working
Apologized
I have something called 'Siwanators,' and if you're a Siwanator, you're strong. You're powerful. You stand up to the bullies. If you're a Siwanator, you're nice. And the way you can tell if someone is a Siwanator is if they have a JoJo bow in.
JoJo Siwa
You
Strong
Nice
Way
Tell
Someone
Something
Powerful
Bow
Bullies
Up
Stand
Stand Up
If there's someone getting picked on, be nice to them and be helpful to them.
JoJo Siwa
Be Nice
Nice
Someone
Picked
Getting
Them
Helpful
I don't let the haters get their way.
JoJo Siwa
Haters
Way
Get
If you are wearing a JoJo bow, you are a Siwanator. If you are a Siwanator, then you are nice, powerful, confident, and believe in yourself.
JoJo Siwa
You
Yourself
Believe In Yourself
Nice
Believe
Wearing
Powerful
Bow
Confident
Then
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