Susanne Langer Quotes
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Quotes to Explore
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!
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I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
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I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.
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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
