"a dream can be the highest point of a life"

-- Ben Okri

“Itâ€™s not the fear of writing that blocks people, itâ€™s fear of not writing well; something quite different.”
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

Source : "Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011.
“Without Messi there isn't a team for Argentina, Messi is brilliant, different, with a strong mentality. Let's hope he doesn't change.”
“Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.”
“Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.”
“To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one”
“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.”
“I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.”

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