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• I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

  Harriet Quimby

  Attitude, Women, Annoyed

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• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Helping, Justification

  Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

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• In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

  Duane Michals

  People, East, Looks

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• Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

  Murray Kempton

  War, Fire, Battle

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.283, New York Review of Books

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• The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be powerless spectators, but to become powerful initiators. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It's not only possible, it's why we are here.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Baby, Powerful

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• Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Sports, Sex

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• There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

  Mantak Chia

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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• I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

  Louis Malle

  Thinking, Opposites, Disturbed

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• I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.

  Jacques Audiard

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

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• I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Reading, School, Editors

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• I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking

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• The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Reader, Adversaries

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  Landon Donovan

  Careers, Watches

  "Landon Donovan: World Cup Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 17, 2006.

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• I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Moving, Fantasy, Realism

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Player, Games

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• America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Responsibility

  "Some Notes On My American Impressions". selftaughtcoders.com. 1921.

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• The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

  Alex Prager

  Distance, Eye, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Sight, Firsts

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• Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Mean, Soldier, World

  1711 In The Spectator, no.1,1Mar.

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Thoughtful, Self

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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• Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

  John Berger

  Passion, Hair, Needs

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• I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Writing

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• The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Simple, Light, Air

  Joshua Reynolds (1835). “The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy”, p.349

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• I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Bridges, Mind, Painting

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