#vent

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director. ↗

— Peter Berg

#another way #casting #director #doing #finding

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#disappear #disappeared #eighty #fifty #forty-five

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#had #human #i #inside #invented

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#event #involved #many #pole #things

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#consumers #doing #law #legal #prevent

Life is composed of different inventions. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#different #inventions #life

We can invent only with memory. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#memory #only

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#cannot #care #dying #earth #end

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#experiences-and-adventures #how-we-become-us #who-we-are #change