"[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation."

-- James Welling

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“I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.”
“I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.”

Source : "FUTURES: 'The Loneliest Planet' Star Hani Furstenberg Movies Beyond the Israeli Stage". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2012.
“We can't fear change...we must embrace it. Sometimes you have to walk on water.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tim Storey from Jul 19, 2016
“The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!”
“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”
“I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of lineâ€”the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.”
“Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.”

Source : William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media
“My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.”

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