Peggy Phelan quotes
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“Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.”
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“Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.”
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“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.”
-- Peggy Phelan
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”
Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.
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“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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Source : Interview with Paul Sagan, John Huey, Martin Nisenhotlz, www.digitalriptide.org. April 4, 2013.
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“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
Source : "Notable Quotables". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.
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