"To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier."

-- W. H. Auden

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“These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.”

Source : "Kamala Harris: Power Prosecutor". Interview with Dana Perino, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 14, 2011.
“Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
“I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.”

Source : "Chuck Liddell UFC 115 Interview". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. June 10, 2010.
“No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.”
“What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.”
“Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.”
“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

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