"A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after."

-- Jeff Wall

#Before And After Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.”
“...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.”
“Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.”
“What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.”
“So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.”

Source : Mark Boal's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 7, 2010.
“I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.”
“To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.”

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