"Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change."

-- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

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“The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.”
“I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.”
“I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'”
“I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.
“There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.203, Macmillan
“I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others.”
“I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.”

Source : "Grant Bowler of Lost, Ugly Betty". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. February 5, 2009.

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