"A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached."

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Source : "Photographs Not Taken". Book by Will Steacy, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

Nina Berman

#Photography Quotes #Commitment Quotes #People Quotes

“But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.”
“The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.”
“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesnâ€™t-eat.”
“I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.”
“We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.”
“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books
“If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.”
“I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?”

Source : "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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