Susan Sontag Quotes
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.Susan Sontag
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Victor Hugo -
My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
Dan Gable -
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.
R. Lee Ermey -
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
Madchen Amick -
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.
Barry Eisler -
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
Walter Russell Mead -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
Candice Patton -
There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
Samuel Larsen -
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Madeleine L'Engle
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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.
Edgar Degas -
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Bill Condon -
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.
Bill Condon -
I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
Katharine McPhee -
It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
Dasha Zhukova -
There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.
Anjelah Johnson
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I'm really inspired right now by a lot of the actors and actresses who are pursuing storytelling outside of just acting. They're writing, producing, they are creating their own material. That's really exciting to me. It feels like the possibilities are endless as far the things that you can make and even where they can be shown.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson -
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Charles Dickens -
When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
Bruno Tonioli -
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
Susan Sontag