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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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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My music is like a diary. I use every experience.
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I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.
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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
