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Trevor Paglen Quotes

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Stars Romantic Me Looking Trying

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

People Dream Possible Watch Sit

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.

Love Creative World Deep Think End

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

Change Music Faith Art Culture Lost

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Balance You Ready Never Ask Made

Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.

Life God Black Group Matter Image

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

I Am People Me Camera Know Always

They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

Michael Rosenbaum

Me Trying Hide Said Why Heels

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Shermer

Nature Thinking Spirit Outside Force

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

Welcome End Decisions Write Final

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Joyce Carol Oates

Child Young Temple Sacred Books

I bought a Cartier nail bracelet to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my blog. It's an investment piece, but it's simple enough to wear every day, and it's something that will last forever.

Chiara Ferragni

Anniversary Day Simple Celebrate

Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.

Life Son Great Challenge Mom Think

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