Allan Sekula Quotes
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I would like to see America some day.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.
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They still need to keep working at getting people to recognize it as an artsy place. There's the potential for Windward, but it's going to take some of the big landowner merchants realizing what we realize: that art pays for itself.
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Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
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Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
