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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You used to defend your musical values to the hilt, but now if something isn't working, you just hop to another band. My youngest daughter went from Justin Bieber to the Jonas Brothers to Joy Division in the space of a few months!
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The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
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I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
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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?
