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• I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Artist, Thinking

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• One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

  James C Humes

  Inspiring, Leadership, Secret

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• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Beautiful, Party

  "Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence". Book by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, Preface, 1931.

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• Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Magic, Hobbies

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Theme, Wanted

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• When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he either finds what he is looking for or dismisses the work as irrelevant. He has deprived himself of the possibility of any fresh experience or revelation by looking only for confirmation of that which he already 'knows.

  Douglas Portway

  Political, Historical, Intellectual

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• One day Barack Obama targets one group or business, the next day he targets another. Never, ever does he take responsibility for any of this mayhem. Oh, no! He's just an innocent bystander. He's a spectator. After running up debt heretofore unseen in this country, he tells us we have to get control of our spending. Now, he is desperately trying to save his pathetic and destructive presidency, and to get reelected he does not give a damn who he hurts in the process or what he damages.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Ideas, Magic

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jan 16, 2017

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• Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right in there in the midst of it, right up to my nose - totally involved in the community, in the world, in the stream of history, in the human image.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Girl, Long Ago, Names

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• I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholeness' or 'oneness,' the experiencing of which should be revelatory - both for the artist and the spectator - something akin to the experience of enlightenment in terms of religion.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Believe, Opposites

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• Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Race, Skills

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• I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

  Evel Knievel

  Fighting, Arena

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• The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Poet, Crave

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.150, Penguin

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• Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Passion, Magic

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, Struggle, Hands

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• In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Drama, Hands

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Thinking, Our Actions

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.40

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• When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Retirement, Children

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• We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

  John F. Kennedy

  Athlete, Presidential, Nations

  Remarks at National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Banquet on December 05, 1961. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Physical Fitness", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

  Camara Laye

  Dancer, Ballet, Beats

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• The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

  Ken Loach

  Focus, Soul, Directors

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• Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

  Cecil Beaton

  Missing, Mind, Bouquets

  Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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• Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

  Charles Simic

  Summer, Making Love, Pages

  Charles Simic (2015). “The Life of Images: Selected Prose”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator

  Assata Shakur

  Girl, Real, Helping Others

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• When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Views, Waiting, Gazing

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