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• Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Excellence, Directors

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• A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

  Kenneth More

  Years, Games, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  Wendell Phillips

  Truth, Blood, Forever

  Wendell Phillips (1859). “Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker”, p.6

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• Democracy is not a spectator sport.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Sports, Women, Democracy

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes after it with carefully calculated goals and no-holds-barred action. A spectator feels that his or her life is not their own. They let others dictate their destiny. They become victims of life instead of masters of it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Destiny, Games, Play

  Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

  Brent Weeks

  Player, Worry, Trying

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

  Henri Matisse

  Artistic, Should, Impress

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  I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Funny, Sports, Golf

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• Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Art, Celebration, Divine

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• If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

  June Callwood

  Injustice, Obligation, Happens

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• The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

  Paul LePaul

  Imagination, Magic, Fantasy

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• Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

  Helen Wills

  Decision, Fairs

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

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• Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

  Bob Goff

  Way, Ownership, Feels

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Film spectators are quiet vampires.

  Jim Morrison

  Movie, Vampire, Actors

  Jim Morrison (1970). “The lords, and The new creatures: poems”

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• It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, Games, Play

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• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pain, History, Religion

  "History of England". Volume I, Chapter II, 1849-1861.

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• The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Artist, Mind, Canvas

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• It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, World, May

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• Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

  Maria Monk

  Views, Numbers, Dresses

  Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.44

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• One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

  Lewis Tappan

  Men, Ice, Prison

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• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Nature, Play, Levels

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• The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Athlete, Weekend

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• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Cycling, Open Road

  "Big interview: Donald McRae meets Lance Armstrong". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.

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• The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Men, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Two, Cooking

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