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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With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.
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The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.
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I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.
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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?
