Alec Soth Quotes
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.
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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
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I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
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Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.
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Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
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Families don't donate brains of their loved ones unless they're concerned about the person.
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For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
