Susan Sontag Quotes
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
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If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The socialite is becoming more important in a luxury brand's marketing strategy as she pulls in the 'right kind of crowd.'
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Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
