Sally Mann Quotes
When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I always remember liking school.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
