Miguel Syjuco Quotes
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
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What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
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I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
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reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
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You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.
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Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
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The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.
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You had to stay awake married to Humphrey Bogart. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.
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The problem is how do molecules react. Because if you want to transform a molecule into something useful or something you're interested in, it helps a lot to understand the structure. That means you can explore much more complicated systems, much more complicated reactions.
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I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.
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I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.
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Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
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I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it.
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
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Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
