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“I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.”
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“The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.”
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“If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!”
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“As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.”
Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.
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“Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.”
Source : Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.”
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“I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.”
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“In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.