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 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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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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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.
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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting and binding effect of shame: to tell the story of our suffering to safe and supportive others.
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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.
