"I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet."

-- Sebastiao Salgado

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“The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.”
“I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.”
“In my films, I like to use the same actors again and again, so I know them really well and can bring their unique personalities into the process. However, as a director, I have strict control over the way they express their personalities. I don't want them to go beyond what I need from them, but I also don't want them to underplay. So I modulate their performances very closely, within a certain range of expression.”
“Break the Shellâ€: â€œChild, itâ€™s time to break the shell Lifeâ€™s gonna hurt but itâ€™s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.”
“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2011). “The Courting of Marcus Dupree”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.”
“I love humanity but I hate people.”

Source : Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.3, eBookIt.com
“In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.”

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