"Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating."

-- Clement Greenberg

#Artist Quotes #Recognition Quotes #Composer Quotes

“After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.”

Source : "Weeds Newcomer Is High on His Role". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. August 26, 2005.
“Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?”
“You have to like the characters you play.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.”

Source : "Message from Massachusetts" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.
“Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.”

Source : Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt (1958). “The Goncourt journals, 1851-1870”
“America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.”

Source : "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.
“Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.”
“Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.”

Source : "Meet Under the Dome's 'Romantic to a Fault' Heartthrob, Alexander Koch" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. September 16, 2013.

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