“There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.” Quote by Sam Abell
“I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.” NeedsFirstsWellsPlayMomentsBeautifulFoundAnimalSituationAwarenessBirdFirst TimeCamerasDepthLitExoticSealsColorfulTurtlesTaking PicturesIguanasExotic Animals Author:Sam Abell
“Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.” ThinkingTakenIndiaPhotographerExoticColorfulNepal Author:Sam Abell
“Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?” PeopleWellsStillsHomeCareInterestingTownsStatementsI CareNoveltyExoticMinusHome Town Author:Sam Abell
“First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.” ThinkingFirstsFactsWantedPhotographAppropriatePairsInvitationsPresentingAuthorship Author:Sam Abell
“I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.” WantLooksUsedCuttingLowsSexyUsed To BeTrendy Author:Kim Kardashian
“A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.” BigsPhotographAfterlife Author:Sam Abell
“I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.” IfsWould BeDifficultStagePlentyGet BetterEightyOblivious Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."” DifficultRealizingIgnorant Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I'm not a big fan of the comics competing against each other.” BigsFansCompeting Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And they both in the same year offered me parts on their programs which was unbelievably lucky and fortuitous.” YearsActingLuckyProgramGaryFortuitous Author:Janeane Garofalo
