David Maisel Quotes
That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
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The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.
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Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
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That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.
