"It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gail Zappa

#Thinking Quotes #Identity Quotes #Claims Quotes

“I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.”

Source : "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.
“The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a certain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind of film stock you useâ€¦ exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the professional the real professional â€“ treats the camera with unutterable disdain. They pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know itâ€™s the eye and the brain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that counts.”
“I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?”
“In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.”
“According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man â€” secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it â€” is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.”
“Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?”
“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”
“Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the suffering of the victim. A criminal trial is only incidentally a therapeutic or cathartic process for victims. But truth commissions, as we saw in South Africa, have the advantage of giving tens of thousands of people the opportunity to tell their stories, and not only does that contribute to healing but it also contributes to reconciliation, especially when perpetrators also come and express contrition.”

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