Emmet Gowin Quotes
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.
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Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
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I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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Time and chance reveal all secrets.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions, all my feelings, and my body on the line. People hurt me, I hurt myself - mentally, physically
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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
