"If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?"

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Source : "Picture of the week: Women, by Richard Avedon" by Hannah Booth, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

Richard Avedon

#Giving Up Quotes #Soul Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.”
“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

Source : Democratic National Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.
“You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?”
“It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.”
“All men desire to be immortal.”
“The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.”
“Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...”
“Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.”

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