"I never liked acting. I don't like to be told what to do and what to say and how to say it. I'm grateful to it as it provided me with the money to do other things such as I'm into now, but as a profession, it's a bore."

(Jon Hall, pseudonimo di Charles Felix Locher, attore; Fresno, 23 febbraio 1915 – North Hollywood, 13 dicembre 1979)

 

"I am not going to get married. I am going to be in the movies." dal biglietto che spedì a casa del promesso sposo, mollato sull'altare per andare a Hollywood.

(Margaret Livingston, conosciuta anche con il nome Marguerite Livingston, attrice; Salt Lake City, 25 novembre 1900 – Warrington, 13 dicembre 1985)

 

"Ich habe nicht erwartet, dass der Beruf so gut zu mir sein wird."

(Horst Tappert, attore famoso per la serie tv L'ispettore Derrick; Elberfeld, 26 maggio 1923 – Planegg, 13 dicembre 2008)

 

"I am a professional of pot, I always smoke, every day, at night when the job is done. I don't drink alcohol, but pot is the only thing I like. Everyone knows that I smoke and I don't cut myself a hair, but I don't want to apologize for that."

(Verónica Forqué, nome completo Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo, attrice; Madrid, 1º dicembre 1955 – Madrid, 13 dicembre 2021)

Dita Parlo, nome d'arte di Grethe Gerda Kornstädt, attrice (Stettino, 4 settembre 1906 – Parigi, 13 dicembre 1971)

"The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men."

(Lupe Vélez, pseudonimo di María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, attrice e ballerina; San Luis Potosí, 18 luglio 1908 – Beverly Hills, 13 dicembre 1944)

Lo Zuccone (Profeta Abacuc), 1423-'25, marmo, 195x54x38 cm., Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Firenze.

(Donatello, vero nome Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Firenze, 1386 – Firenze, 13 dicembre 1466)

"L'arte oltrepassa i limiti nei quali il tempo vorrebbe comprimerla, e indica il contenuto del futuro."

(Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij; Mosca, 16 dicembre 1866 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 13 dicembre 1944)

Foto: Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, Giallo, rosso, blu, 1925, olio su tela, Musée national d'art moderne, Parigi.

"The pictures I most like are not necessarily pictures of Hollywood stars. I’m always looking for the perfect picture, and it does not matter who’s in it. And I can also add that I am more than 90 years old and have been holding a camera since age 14, and I have not yet found the perfect picture yet. But I will always keep looking for it."

(Phil Stern, fotografo; Filadelfia, 3 settembre 1919 – Barstow, 13 dicembre 2014)

"You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders."

(Ella Baker, attivista; Norfolk, 13 dicembre 1903 – New York, 13 dicembre 1986)

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"The New Freewoman is not for the advancement of Woman, but for the empowering of individuals - men and women; it is not to set women free, but to demonstrate the fact that “freeing” is the individual’s affair and must be done first-hand, and that individual power is the first step thereto; it is not to bring new thoughts to individuals, but to set the thinking mechanism to the task of destroying thoughts - to make plain that thinking has no merit in itself, but is a machine, of which the purpose is not to create something, but to liberate something: not to create thoughts but to set free life impulses."

da: The New Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 2, July 1st 1913.
(Dora Marsden, suffragetta, anarchica, individualista; Marsden, 5 marzo 1882 – Dumfries, 13 dicembre 1960)
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