Mario Testino Quotes
I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
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I love a man bun.
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I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.
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Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
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We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
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I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.
