Harold Rosenberg Quotes
Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
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What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?
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Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom.
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Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.
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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
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I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.
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Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.
