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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It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.
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I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.
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Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
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Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
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Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
