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Tends Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
- Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of…
- The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an art…
- Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the…
- TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image, that the actor…
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- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this… — Christian Bale
- Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. — Hosea Ballou
- As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually… — Eric Bana
- Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real… — Andre Breton
- Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends… — Anita Brookner
- I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side.… — Alton Brown
- Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
- The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen