"I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Chantal Joffe

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“Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.”
“I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.”
“Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria
“Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.”
“I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.”
“It is difficulties that show what men are.”
“There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.”
“It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Little Star: A Novel”, p.278, Macmillan

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