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"Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again."
"If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity."
"I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is."
"my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me."
"I've always gone for the more understated look."
"If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction."
"Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'"
"There's no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!"
"Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like."
"If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead."
"I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy"
"The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money."
"God always looks after the fools and — and the United States."
"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world."
"When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time."
"For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that."
"It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt."
"I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do."
