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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Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
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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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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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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.
