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Ellen Willis Quotes

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006

Topics

Art Advertising System Corporate

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

Experience Results Admit Human Seem

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Age New York Painting New First Had

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Intelligence Information Matter Even

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

Fun Conservative Kid Fraternity Sure

I look at people, and I like to laugh at them.

People Laugh Look Like Them

The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.

Service Space Building Small Line

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life.

Life Father Son Man Reality Perfect

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

Love Good People Song Try Anything

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

Miroslav Vitous

Father Knowledge School Me You

Me and my son got pictures on the Batmobile. I'm a big kid.

Son Me Pictures Kid Big Got

If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.

Time Writing See Narrative Fans

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

Job Black Think Look Matter Risk

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