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Provocateur Quotes By Gary F. Marcus

Repetition sometimes works in poetry, but rarely in prose. The musical provocateur John Cage once wrote a lecture in which a single page was repeated fourteen times, with the refrain "If anybody is sleep let him go to sleep" (Cage, 1961). Midway through, the artist Jean Reynal stood up and screamed, "John, I dearly love you, but I can't bear another minute. — Gary F. Marcus

Provocateur Quotes By Marie-Antoine Careme

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme

Provocateur Quotes By Marianne Williamson

I'm a provocateur. — Marianne Williamson

Provocateur Quotes By Michel Houellebecq

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think. — Michel Houellebecq

Provocateur Quotes By Harold Bloom

Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism — Harold Bloom

Provocateur Quotes By Anna Wintour

There's barely a strand of the modern media that the Kardashian-Wests haven't been able to master, and for good reason: Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world's spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that. — Anna Wintour

Provocateur Quotes By Teffi

He's ambitious - even excessively ambitious. He wants to become a provocateur, but he doesn't know a single revolutionary song. — Teffi

Provocateur Quotes By Scott Rudin

Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it. — Scott Rudin

Provocateur Quotes By Gloria D. Gonsalves

I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Provocateur Quotes By Dana Stabenow

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow

Provocateur Quotes By Anais Nin

Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances.
Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves to daylight. — Anais Nin

Provocateur Quotes By Donald Maass

Why is it important to look at fiction writing through the lens of emotional experience? Because that's the way readers read. They don't so much read as respond. They do not automatically adopt your outlook and outrage. They formulate their own. You are not the author of what readers feel, just the provocateur of those feelings. You may curate your characters' experiences and put them on display, but the exhibit's meaning is different in thousands of ways for thousands of different museum visitors, your readers. Not — Donald Maass

Provocateur Quotes By Cory Booker

As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation. — Cory Booker

Provocateur Quotes By Tyler Shields

Sexuality is a very private thing, 'Provocateur' will make it public — Tyler Shields

Provocateur Quotes By Toba Beta

You don't need a provocateur,
if demon's been there within you. — Toba Beta

Provocateur Quotes By Roseanne Barr

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing. — Roseanne Barr

Provocateur Quotes By Sandra Bernhard

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of. — Sandra Bernhard