David LaChapelle Quotes
I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?
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There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
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Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.
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I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
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I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...
