Sally Mann Quotes
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Quotes to Explore
-
Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
-
I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
-
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
-
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
-
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
-
I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
-
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
-
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
-
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
-
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
-
If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
-
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
-
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
-
When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
-
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
-
I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
-
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
-
People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
-
'Writer's block' is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
-
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
-
I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
-
In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.
-
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
