"The image itself is kind of the least important factor to me, though I'm still interested in putting forth an interesting image. I see the image as the screen laid over top of what really interests me, which is that depth of surface and that filmic quality that it has when you pass the piece. The idea that my pieces look like paintings, but are most definitely not, is really interesting to me."

-- Tara Donovan

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“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.”
“I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to love their organizations. We need that level of commitment ... Yet organizations have done very little to deserve that kind of staying-power.”
“When [Adolf] Hitler was in Munich, their place [with Eva Braun] to meet was always his apartment. Before that, it was at Hoffmann's place. They had their routine there, Hitler had his security there, it was a place he was used to. He never got used to the apartment he got us on the WidenmayerstraÃŸe .”
“I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.”

Source : "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.
“When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.”

Source : "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.
“I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.189, London, R. Bentley
“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
“My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.”

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