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“Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.”
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
Source : "A Lover's Discourse (Talking)". Bok by Roland Barthes, 1977.
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“When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.”
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“Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.”
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“you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.”
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“A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.”
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“I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”
