"My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art."

-- Graciela Iturbide

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“I miss working with my friends and the fun we had. Working on the series was the best time I ever had on a set. I am disappointed that they cancelled the series when they did, because I felt that by the seventh season, we were really hitting our stride, and that episodes were getting better and better. Some people say that the show had run its course and that it was time to quit, but I disagree.”
“There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.”
“Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.”
“And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.”
“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”

Source : In Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds.) 'The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett' (1897) vol. 1, p. 248
“Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.”
“Music is like my security blanket.”
“It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.”

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