Alec Soth Quotes
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
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I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
