Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
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New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.
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I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
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We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
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One of the hardest things is to create hope.
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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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The whole function of education is to create Nazis.
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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Everyone has their own mission in life and what they've got to do. You can't knock them for it. There's always a lot going on in people's lives.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
