Jonathan Mannion Quotes
The technical side of things is invaluable, but that side of the process should be unconscious. Your technical abilities should just allow your brain to just flow. And to be in a flow of creation at all times.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.
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Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.
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BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.
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Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
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The technical side of things is invaluable, but that side of the process should be unconscious. Your technical abilities should just allow your brain to just flow. And to be in a flow of creation at all times.
