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All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
Augusto Boal
2.
I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.
Evel Knievel
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!
Bill Hybels
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If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.
June Callwood
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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
Joseph Addison
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Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.
Mark Twight
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I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.
Robin McGraw
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
Landon Donovan
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The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.
Sybil Leek
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
William Hazlitt
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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
Howard Hodgkin
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I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
Ed Zern
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
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Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
Helen Wills
24.
Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.
Max McKeown
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Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
Joshua Oppenheimer
28.
My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
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Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.
Chuck Palahniuk
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... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.
Elaine Dundy
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
John F. Kennedy
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The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
LeRoy Neiman
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
Ansel Adams
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One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
Isabelle Huppert
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The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
Mervyn Levy