Sally Mann Quotes
When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
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The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
