Duane Michals Quotes
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Age affects how people experience time.
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Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
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If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.
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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
