Susan Sontag Quotes
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
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I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
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It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
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As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
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I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.
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Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?
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Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
