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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. Stephen Greenblatt

Astonishing Objects Shakespeare Attached He Name Became Left Behind

I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories. Susanna Clarke

I love 'Gone Girl,' so bringing 'Sharp Objects' to life, that was amazing. Sydney Sweeney

Life Love Amazing Girl Gone Objects Sharp Bringing

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. Tarja Halonen

Time Nature People Law Logically Follows Objects Rather Also Globalization Subjects Train Same Same Time Process Who Set

I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment? Theaster Gates

Art Sometimes Related About Objects Point Ideas How Am Current Where Should Moment Challenged Imagine

Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them. Theresa Rebeck

Culture Women Men Older Babes Films Our Distorted About Objects Allen Sees Dates Make Still Subjects Women Are Chick Gets Woody Woody Allen Movies Them Fun Media

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass. Tia Carrere

OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all. Timothy Morton

Added Back Abject Objects Like Subjects Behave Patriarchal

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding. Tino Sehgal

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point. Tino Sehgal

Wealth Society Other Machine Valuing Kind Promoting About Objects Point Like Industrial Tied Been Same Really Derived Moment Displaying Each Started Museum Museums

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects. Trevor Paglen

Time Strange People Space Language Looking Late Objects Putting Aesthetic Were Lot Very Artists Spacecraft Them Really Things

Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image. Vladimir Prelog

Nature World Mirror Related Our Object Three-Dimensional Objects Only Perceptual Ideally Least Versions Many Appear Image Two

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. Walter Pater

Experience Reality First Action Sight Pressing Ourselves Out Thousand Seems Objects Sharp Calling Bury Forms Us Flood External

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God. Wendy O. Williams

Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their punishment would be everlasting. The 'Systeme de la Nature,' read about the beginning of that year, changed my opinion and made me a Deist. William Godwin

Nature Me Made Year Beginning Changed Punishment Would Would-Be About Objects Divine Doctrine Majority Read Opinion Till Condemnation Were La Mankind Believed Everlasting

I collect a lot of cursed objects. That's probably why I have a lot of problems. Zak Bagans

Problems Collect Objects Lot Cursed Why

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape. Santiago Calatrava

Construction Architecture Result Creation Engineering Distinction Objects Only Both Between Schools Disciplines Bureaucratic Difference Landscape

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references. Ueli Gegenschatz

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor

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