"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power."

-- Susan Sontag

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“When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.”

Source : Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.13, Harper Collins
“The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.”
“The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.”
“I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.”
“For me, I don't think I gravitate to listening to only dark music.”
“I am the biggest "but why?" question asker.”
“There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.”
“I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.”

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