Leonard Shlain Quotes
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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I love taking elements and colours from nature and then distorting them somehow.
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
