Gail Dines Quotes
Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.
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I like creating images.
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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
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I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!
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Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
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Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
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To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
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The damage is extensive due to the extreme heat, dry weather, high winds and stressful moisture conditions.
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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
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The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.
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For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.
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I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
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Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.
