Emmet Gowin Quotes
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
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Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.
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Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
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For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
