"The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes."

-- David Simon

#Emotional Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.”

Source : "David Sylvian: 'Do gentlemen still take Polaroids? I think they take Viagra now!'". Interview with Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.
“Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.”
“In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.”
“Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.”
“I am in the prime of my senility.”
“Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.”
“I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.”
“I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.”

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