"I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography."

-- Jean-Marc Bustamante

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“My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.”
“It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.”
“This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.”

Source : "The Line Man: Michael Strahan". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.”
“You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust that they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing. And if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.”

Source : "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.
“Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.”
“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”

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