Teju Cole Quotes
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
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I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.
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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make.
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I drink a ton of water a day and try to get as much sleep as possible. Sleep is the best way to restore your health. Never skip on sleep; it's crazy important.
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There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
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The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
