Susanne Langer Quotes
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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I don't eat the same meal or at the same time every single day. You get tired of that real quick. I just try to make sure whatever I'm eating is fresh and clean and good for my body. That's about it.
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I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic, and I'm not a comic person - it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at.
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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
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Let's put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.
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There aren't many artists who can feel sorry for me.
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If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.
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I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
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When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.
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The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.
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If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
