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"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that."

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."

"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."
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