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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that...
KEVIN CONROY I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reac...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
JESSE EISENBERG She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe,...
DOLPH LUNDGREN Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people ...
BILLY MAGNUSSEN It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all t...
DACRE MONTGOMERY Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. The...
KYLIE JENNER The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that'...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing ...
PALMER LUCKEY In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone...
AVA DUVERNAY I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum...
QUENTIN CRISP It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is...
GABRIEL BYRNE I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really gl...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h...
ARIEL GORE Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in ...
ROBERT DUVALL Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PLATO There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exac...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions t...
CASS SUNSTEIN There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.
CONOR OBERST The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the count...
DAN BARTLETT It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; th...
ELIZABETH WILSON It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo...
CHRIS MILK Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ...
MICHAEL CARBONARO There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy ...
ROONEY MARA Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of ...
BETH BRODERICK Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to...
JEB BUSH There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
PAUL AUSTER I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world...
MARIA SHRIVER I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I ...
MARY-KATE OLSEN Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that mat...
KATHRYN SCHULZ With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build ...
DALAI LAMA The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's tel...
LANCE ITO The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delus...
PAUL WATZLAWICK That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone els...
EVANGELINE LILLY What matters is what we do with the life we have.
CARRIE RYAN You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standa...
KRIS CARR I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b...
JOHN BURNSIDE I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of the...
MICHAEL BOLTON It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music ...
BRANDON BOYD It's a city of its own and has its own sound. I think what makes it different is the drama; you ...
BILLY PAUL I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity...
ALEC BALDWIN Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I...
RANDY JOHNSON Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all tr...
OLIVIA MUNN The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else'...
AZAR NAFISI The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that...
MALCOLM TURNBULL She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's di...
MATT TAIBBI What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always wa...
PAUL WALKER One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else'...
MAHATMA GANDHI Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love ...
KIM JONG-UN It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the...
MATTHEW BOURNE When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their...
KRISTY SWANSON I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventu...
TIM WISE In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
JOHN MCTIERNAN Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's ...
LANCE ITO There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No...
RIZ AHMED Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transp...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because...
DALLAS ROBERTS Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts ...
PAUL WELLER It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to u...
DAISY RIDLEY 'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do -...
SYD BARRETT To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go ou...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III I love this city. There's Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other's backs here...
STIPE MIOCIC It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te...
KEN ADAM One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military b...
D. J. COTRONA There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because eve...
WANGARI MAATHAI Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe i...
MARILYN MANSON Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.
MICHAEL FROME In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality...
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SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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