Susanne Langer Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
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'You don't pay prostitutes to come to your house; you pay them to leave.'
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I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours!
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
