Raymond Williams Quotes
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.
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I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
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A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
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Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
