Sally Mann Quotes
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
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Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.
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You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.
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If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
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I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
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Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
