Dave Gorman Quotes
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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Is it ever too late for a sequel?
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When I'm working with pictures, with images and storytelling, it's really about the sentiment and the emotional trajectory of the characters. That's really where the music lives, I think. That's what I'm focused on; that's what I respond to most strongly.
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I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair
