"I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes."

-- Rineke Dijkstra

#Attitude Quotes #Trying Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.”
“To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.”
“She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?”
“The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.”
“There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.”
“If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.”
“I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?”
“This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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