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Susan Sontag Quotes

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Susan Sontag

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Wake Up Feel Serious Want Up

From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.

Joe Kaeser

Perspective More Agreement Trade

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

John Green

Work Relationship Value Loved Desire

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton

Rich True Modesty Covetousness

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Robert Smith

Me Always Reinvention Idea Bizarre

Since I've been in an actor, I've lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm - I had the fortune of working in different locations. If you live someplace long enough, you acquire slightly different systems of thought, and it influences your outlook on life. I just slowly adapted the way I speak.

Matthew Settle

Life Live Speak Thought Enough You

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

John Singer Sargent

Habit Book Back Brilliant Reason Up

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

Stana Katic

School High School High Piano Part

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

Steven Price

Space Pink Early Like Stuff Some

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

Toni Collette

Reality Dark Place Kind Come Prefer

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Rupert Sheldrake

Nature Physics Constant Certain

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel de Cervantes

Dry Taking Trout

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

Mitch Daniels

Nothing Conservative Being Outlook