"Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?"

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Source : "I Love Dick". Book by Chris Kraus, 1997.

Chris Kraus

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Degradation Quotes

“I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.”

Source : "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.
“This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.”
“I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.”
“Weâ€™re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We donâ€™t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”
“When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.”
“Maybe you should just press the button”
“I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.”
“Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze.”

Source : Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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