Sally Mann Quotes
If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
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I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
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At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
