Andrea Modica Quotes
I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
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Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.
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The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!
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An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
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When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.
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I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.
