Eli Siegel Quotes
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.
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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
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I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.
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I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.
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The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.
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Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.
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Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
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I still believe in marriage.
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
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He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
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If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.
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The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
