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"Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera."
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster."
"It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things."
"Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s."
"The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream."
"In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless."
"Only the absolutely determined people succeed."
"You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are."
"Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable."
"A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself."
"To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it."
"Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success."
"My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'"
"I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language."
"There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!"
"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals."
"I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
"For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people."
"I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward."
