Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
"On Keeping Closets Closed" (1973), p. 76
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
“What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.”
"James Taylor Marked for Death" (1971), p. 70
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
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Art Clokey (1921–2010) American animator
Quoted by Michelle Locke (Associated Press), "Gumby comes back to TV", The Dispatch (Lexington), 14 November 1995, p. 6B
Vātsyāyana Indian logician
Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti in: The Mystique of Enlightenment: Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti http://books.google.com/books?id=Y6efkbAiXKoC&pg=PA125, Smriti Books, 2005, p. 125
“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Julius Malema (1981) South African political activist
On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks? https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/, SAPeople News (5 March 2018)
Michelle Branch (1983) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"All You Wanted"
2000s, The Spirit Room (2001)
Context: I wanted, to be like you. I wanted, everything. So, I tried. To be like you, and I got swept away. I didn't know that it was so cold and, you needed someone to show you the way. So I took your hand and we figured out, that when the time comes? I'd take you away. If you want to? I can save you; I can take you away from here. So lonely inside; so busy out there. And all you wanted, was somebody who cares.
“I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about.”
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
On Frida Kahlo's work and her own
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Context: She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it. She didn't care at all if people bought her paintings. As she said, she painted her reality.
I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about. I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself. That's a difference.
Frida painted her own reality, her life. I'm a director and I paint many other people... Other people's realities. But I do have to invest in it.
“It's not just about you taking care of "your" child. It's about you taking care of these children.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)
