"I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up."

-- Catherine Opie

#Identity Quotes #Culture Quotes #Construction Quotes

“Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.”
“I am a director and I think actually they're not that different - dramas and docs aren't that different. When I'm doing a drama I'm trying to make things feel as believable and real as possible. The hair, the make-up, the costume, the design, you're trying to make it authentic. And when you've got a documentary it's all authentic, so what story are you going to tell and how do you make it dramatic and exciting? It's the same thing.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.”
“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”
“Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.160
“Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol”
“I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.”
“Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.”

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