"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."

-- Sam Abell

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“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.”
“I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.”
“Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.”
“I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends”
“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2002.
“I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.
“The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.”
“A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”

Source : New York Times 24 Jan. 1932, sec. 8, p. 6

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