Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.
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I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
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The last 10% of game design is really what separates the good games from the great games. It's what I call the clean-up phase of game design. Here's where you make sure all the elements look great. The game should look good, feel good, sound good, play good.
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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
