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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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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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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I still believe in marriage.
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The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.
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The best thing that is happening to us is that we have a day off. We have kind of lost our game.
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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
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The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
