Benefits Of Performing Arts Quotes & Sayings

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti. — James Thurber

We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love. — Bertrand Russell

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. — Cornel West

You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized - but brand this on your heart - you can never go where God is not. — Max Lucado

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life, — Gabrielle Zevin

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? — James Hillman

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God. — Alan Wolfe

I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even recognize my ideas as ideas at all: they seemed to be culled from somewhere else and did not belong to me. I did not know then what I am just beginning to know now: that my ideas were indeed mine, that I had reacted and changed and moved, that I had already analyzed and synthesized, rejecting some thoughts, adopting others, putting yet others away for a while to be thought on. I did not recognize how mentally active an individual I had become, already divorced from the world through my own thoughts, my own perceptions of right and wrong, of honour and justice, of what mattered and what did not. (2007: 117) — Jean Said Makdisi

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible. — John Berger

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. — Paul Robeson

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists. — John Hughes

Be who you are, live how you want, do what you love. — Brittany Perloff

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"Read your mind?" Osiris shrugged. "It's like an open book full of blank pages. Wasn't very hard. — Rachel Firasek

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy. — Kirsten Dunst

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career. — Angie Dickinson