"There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance."

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Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

Padgett Powell

#War Quotes #Phones Quotes #Texting Quotes

“In Dardenne brothers' films is a really small kind of humanity. It's not like the titanic "humanity" of humanism, it's much more gritty and realistic. But again, humanity is what unites all the people I'm talking about, and in such different ways. The humanity is in that moment you glimpse someone and have a completely intimate moment with them, and that intimacy is connected to an extreme pathetic aspect.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.”
“Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.”

Source : "Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.
“In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.”
“When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.”
“And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.”
“I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.”
“When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.”

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