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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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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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?
