"Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!"

-- Diana Vreeland

#Mad Quotes #Ballet Quotes

“Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.”
“I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.”

Source : "Producer Mark Ronson Talks About ‘shutting off the disco ball in my head’ for ‘Re:Generation Music Project’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. February 15, 2012.
“The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.”

Source : John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.7, University of Missouri Press
“While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.”
“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”
“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,”

Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
“What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.”
“Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!”

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