"The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context."

-- Bertolt Brecht

#Song Quotes #Art Quotes #Epic Quotes

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”
“I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.”
“If you love the things you do, you donâ€™t age, you always remain young. Age is for the calendar.”
“I am very grateful that the Russian budget has a yearly budget for film. And usually this budget goes to "auteur" cinema, which actually needs this support and which indeed contributes to creating "national culture".”

Source : Source: collider.com
“From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.”
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”
“Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!”
“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.48, Beacon Press

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