Abelardo Morell Quotes
...the very basics of photography can be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
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If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
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I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
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Everyone has a story.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.
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I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
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All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
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The problem in the Syrian opposition is not between Islamists and non-Islamists. It was the lack of any political experience after 50 years of no political experience. The problem was a lack of political organizations that are truly effective and powerful. This is still a challenge now; it is a weakness in the reality of Syrian political life.
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When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
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...the very basics of photography can be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
