Allan Sekula Quotes
The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
Allan Sekula
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
Fabiola Gianotti
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Sadie Jones
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
Karin Slaughter
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
Victor Garber
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
Katee Sackhoff
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Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I realized that Sam wasn’t angry at all. She was hurt. At that moment I heard all the hurt she’d ever held. And it seemed to me that the whole house had quieted down to listen to her pain.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
Mary Beard
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
Allan Sekula
