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Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
-- Walker Evans
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say "Come out with us." But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Music is not always a gondola, a race horse or a tight rope. It is also sometimes a chair.
-- Jean Cocteau
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Avoidance of difficulty (or pain) is often the plausible first step in a person's degeneration.
-- Harold Clurman
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In the theater, our work is about life and death. Because people in life base their performance of themselves -- whether that's how they act in the courtroom, how they act on a date, how they act Asian, how they act like a man, a woman -- on the performances they see in the media. We have to give them more to work with...We need chameleons, transformers. Mercurial people. The times are hot, but there's not enough mercury in the
thermometor. That's why we don't have an accurate display of the climate. We need mercurials. We don't need mimics.
-- Anna Deveare Smith
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Be someone on whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James
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