Why I go down this road at all is because I am in love with the photograph and all its astonishing capacity, as a tool, to tell stories, to spark the imagination, to leverage empathy in the human heart and create change. I believe more and
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“Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.”
― This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
― This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
“وحقي فيك يا وطني غريق”
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“Chris Cornell: I think Pearl Jam was the band that set the perfect example. Their big video, "Jeremy," propelled them into becoming TV stars and one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, so they stopped making videos, which was proof positive that that wasn't where they wanted to be. And that made a lot of sense to me.
Nirvana doing an Unplugged at the same time that they did it and making a video for "Heart-Shaped Box," that didn't make a lot of sense to me, because it seemed clear to me that Kurt was pretty disillusioned by the situation that he was being put in. It felt like, If he's so unhappy, he shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff.”
― Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Nirvana doing an Unplugged at the same time that they did it and making a video for "Heart-Shaped Box," that didn't make a lot of sense to me, because it seemed clear to me that Kurt was pretty disillusioned by the situation that he was being put in. It felt like, If he's so unhappy, he shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff.”
― Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
“People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.”
― The Baker's Daughter
― The Baker's Daughter
“You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with”
― Crash
― Crash
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