Craig Owens Quotes

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

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• Desire
• Photography
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• Ephemeral
• Transitory

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

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• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
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• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
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• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
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• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
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  • Take
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• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
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• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• No one wears high heels all day, every day.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Day
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• I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
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• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Party
  • Top
  • Jeans

• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Career
  • Government
  • Politics

• I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Think
  • Change

• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

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• It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Grow

• Sure, I'm hyperactive. I make my staff a bit hyper, too, but motivating someone else is what gives me a buzz.

  

  Anouska Hempel

• Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Character
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• I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • People
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• I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Magic
  • Ways
  • Bullet

• To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Desire
  • Create
  • Physical World

• As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

  

  Craig Owens Chiodos
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Photography