"To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false."

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Source : Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

Dorothea Lange

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“While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.”
“I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, â€œOh my god, people are paying attention to me, I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and try to seem really cool.â€ I had this moment of being commercially self conscious and it took maybe a month for me to realize no, this is not who I ****ing am, and here's a picture of me in drag. Which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing. There's not a more sure fire way to give a stifled, boring, empty, vapid, meaningless interview than trying to say the right thing...”

Source : "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.
“I care more about what God knows than what man says.”

Source : "Dave Mustaine...Back in Business". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
“Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth”
“And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there!”
“It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.”
“The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.”
“I am being stalked across the Web. And why is this happening? Pretty simple: It's huge business.”

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