Aaron Siskind Quotes
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
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To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
