"A poem doesnâ€™t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means."

-- Franny Billingsley

#Mean Quotes #Circles Quotes #Tails Quotes

“I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.”

Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.”
“In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage.”
“Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.”
“Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.”
“You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions.”
“Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.”
“Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.”

Source : "Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock: A Conversation on Pictures". Interview with Lucas Blalock, aperture.org.

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