"Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it."

-- Paul Strand

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“I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.”
“Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.”
“I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.”

Source : "Annaleigh Ashford Takes ‘Lost In The Stars,’ Her Glitzy Solo Cabaret, On The Road". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.
“Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.”
“When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, â€˜okay, thatâ€™s where I want to be.â€™ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like thatâ€™s where the player hating starts. You know thatâ€™s where everybodyâ€™s like, â€˜Well itâ€™s not all that”
“You are beautiful and perfect and lovely HOWEVER you are.”
“There is no way forward without ending the occupation.”
“Wisdom eventually comes to all of us. Someday it might even be your turn.”

Source : David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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