"Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing."

-- Richard Prince

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #Real Things Quotes

“I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.”

Source : "The Oscars? Oh no, not again". www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.
“Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.”
“Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.”

Source : Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.122
“The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets ...”
“Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!”
“All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.”
“I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you're always entering new places at that age, you kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

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