Abelardo Morell Quotes

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.

Abelardo Morell

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• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Think
  • Want
  • Place

• I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.

  

  Flume
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• Love is a state of being.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Love
  • Being
  • Love Is

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Religious

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Complicated

• For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Good
  • Food
  • Best

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Struggle

• If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • People
  • Young
  • Race

• Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Feelings
  • Easy
  • Existence

• Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.

  

  Abelardo Morell
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Crazy