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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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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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.
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When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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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.
