"Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem."

-- Thomas Roma

#Photography Quotes #Trying Quotes #Form Quotes

“We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.”
“How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.”
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
“Who wants to wake up in the morning and have to remember that they've got to face Adrien Broner?”
“What we choose, changes us. What we love, transforms us.”
“Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction â€¦ At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.”
“Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.”
“I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even when you watch all the way through the end of a drama, you remember the actor’s name, not the character’s. I want my character’s name to be more remembered than mine.”

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