Errol Morris Quotes

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

Errol Morris

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After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

Jerry Saltz

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When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

John Bradshaw

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Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

John Burnside

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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

John Cage

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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

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For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

Andrew Weil

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I don't drink as much as I use to could.

Anna Nicole Smith

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I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

Michael Feldman

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I've always been a voracious reader.

Amy Chozick

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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

Shirley Manson

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You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

Robin Yount

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My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive.

Rose George

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