Tatjana Soli famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.
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Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?
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What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?
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Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.
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The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.
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She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.
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This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.
-- Tatjana Soli
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
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The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
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For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
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