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.
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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 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 wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
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If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
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And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.
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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.
