Susanne Langer Quotes
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
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Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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I'm not someone who feels settled.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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Vintage never fits the way you think it will.
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I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe.
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You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
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Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.
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I've never let people push me around in politics.
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We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
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If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.
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Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
