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Susan Sontag Quotes

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Susan Sontag

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

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Start You Artist Place Will Reflect

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

Joe Klein

Great Justice Purpose Democracy Done

Pulled pork jokes never get old.

Joel Edgerton

Never Old Jokes Pork Get Pulled

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

Andrew Mason

Experience Buying Different Consumer

Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

Maureen O'Sullivan

Me Thought Doing Fast Done Way

I just don't have time to really sit there and worry about someone disliking what we put so much effort into.

Johnny Christ

Time Effort Someone Worry Sit Just

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in 'The Big Bang Theory,' for instance, are studs.

Stephen Merchant

Hope Me Battle American Way Wit

I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.

Tom Peters

Good People Me I Can Sometimes Say

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

Work Science World Rules Out

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

Mary Pierce

Information Go Opponent Little Court

I'm not an innovator.

Mitski

Innovator

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Jean Cocteau

Say Right Only Won Them After

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

Dennis Quaid

Career Done Intentional Possible Try