"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."

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Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.185, Univ of California Press

Michel de Certeau

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“The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.”
“I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.”
“Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.”
“I definitely love to talk to my men...I want to see how I feel, how they feel.”
“Iâ€™ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.”
“I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.”
“We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.”
“Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!”

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