"I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Vito Acconci

“This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.404, Transaction Publishers
“Adieu, Lord Dain,â€ she answered without turning her head. â€œHave a pleasant evening with your cows.â€ Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit heâ€™d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to hisâ€¦ cows.”
“I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.”
“Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.”

Source : Jean Toomer (1980). “The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer”, Washington : Howard University Press
“I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.”
“The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.”
“If America is truly Israels greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.”
“Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.”

Source : Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

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