Daido Moriyama Quotes
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.
