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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'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through.
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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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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
