Paper Quotes - Page 35

• In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Night, Reality

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.96, Vintage Canada

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• Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Firsts, Crime, Masturbation

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• I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

  David Cross

  New York, Cities, Different

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

  Jake Holmes

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

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• I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

  Alex Abreu

  Team, Believe, Pieces

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

  Betty Friedan

  College, Years, Editors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Believe, Flesh, Return

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

  Frank Yerby

  Simple, Men, Years

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• Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

  Ilka Chase

  Photography, People, Thank God

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Mad, Car

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• My mom was crazy. And her mom was crazy. And her mom's mom was crazy. Is it my turn? Am I going to live the rest of my life giggling at raindrops, wearing paper slippers ? When I go to dinner with friends, should I not use a fork 'cause I just might snap? Hey, you guys look great. How's the baby?

  Christopher Titus

  Baby, Crazy, Dinner With Friends

  "Titus / Insanity Genetic: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Rags, Dry

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• I say we spend some money, clean up some junkies and make them all go work for the Red Cross. You ever give blood to the Red Cross? Little paper hatted trainee kid, just sticking you full of holes. Golly, jeez, this is way harder than the deep fryer, how does this work? You get an ex-junkie in there, bap-bap, he's gonna find a vein. You're in, you're out, you got sugar cookie and you're happy!

  Christopher Titus

  Kids, Blood, Giving

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, College, Artist

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

  Gary Gulman

  Coffee, Keys, Talent

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• White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

  Dov Davidoff

  Rapper, White, Goal

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• Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.

  Joell Ortiz

  Writing, Names, Hip Hop

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• I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Talking

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• White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.

  Dieter Appelt

  Photography, Light, Color White

  Sylvia Wolf, Dieter Appelt, Wieland Schmied (1994). “Dieter Appelt”, Art Institute of Chicago

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• I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

  Michael Light

  Photography, Wall, Struggle

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Drawing, Pieces, World

  Eduardo Souto de Moura (2005). “Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas”

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• So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Ideas, Helping

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• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

  "The Monster Talent: Lady Gaga". Interview with Andy Cohen, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2013.

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• The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

  Michael Polanyi

  Book, Ideas, Ink And Paper

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• A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Pieces, Photograph, Materials

  Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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