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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. -- Simon Schama
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. -- Charles Hazlewood
Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing. -- Mark Morris
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. -- Dan Hill
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. -- Paul Wellstone
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. -- Kathryn Bigelow
For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in. -- Jim Crace
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. -- Florence King
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes. -- Joan Van Ark
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic. -- Gus Van Sant
The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things. -- Rory Kinnear
I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope. -- Harmony Korine
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation -- John Ashbery
When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled. -- Dorianne Laux
I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'. -- Rita Mae Brown
When you get to the rarefied air that people like Montana and Steve Young and other NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat competitive nature of things. -- Rush Limbaugh
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. -- Jean Paul
When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes. -- Joan Van Ark
Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being. -- Martin Firrell

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