"The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal."

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Source : John Dunning (2012). “The Bookman's Wake”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

John Dunning

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“Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.”

Source : "ASAP Rocky Coveteur Interview: Rapper Says ‘Fashion Is Almost Like A Religion’" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
“Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.77, Moody Publishers
“Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.”
“I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.”
“How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.”
“It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.”
“You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.”
“In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.”

Source : "Aristide appeals for peace in Haiti" by Jeff Koinange, Lucia Newman and Barbara Starr, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2004.

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