Duane Michals Quotes
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does.
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I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ... the success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.
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Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.
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An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.
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You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
