"Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer â€” unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance."

-- Mark Klett

#Giving Quotes #Antiques Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes

“Thatâ€™s you. Callie, youâ€™re the only person thatâ€™s ever made me feel happy about anything. That night you saved me, you changed something in meâ€”you made me want to live.”
“This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.”
“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”
“You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.”
“What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.”
“My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead." The pottery classes were meant to be a part of my overall uplift. I knew what it meant to be sent to art classes, but I still didn't know anything about being an artist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on autumn 1792, as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay (p. 306), 1908.
“In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.”

Source : "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2006.

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