“I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.” ThinkingSometimesStuffBitsFiveClubsTheatreComicOne LinerBeing Funny Author:Dylan Moran
“I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.” Things To DoRubbishBetter Things To Do Author:Dylan Moran
“I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.” ThinkingBigsUsedSongFansFantasticHarveyPjsPj Harvey Author:Dylan Moran
“That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.” WritingYearsMeanSaidStuffFourDrinkingManageFour YearsFlippant Author:Dylan Moran
“I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.” YearsBookEnvironmentChangedYears AgoMarkBlogs Author:Sam Abell
“I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.” GivingSaidBookEnoughNextPhotographTitlesInstantMeaning Of LifeBiographiesLecturesLife MeansMy Biography Author:Sam Abell
“There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a photograph, and in the end I talk about that, with the Richard Prince picture. But mainly, what I dedicated the book to being about was how photographs begin their life, and where they begin it. And they begin it with the photographer's imagination and instinct and experience.” WayBookEndsImaginationInstinctPhotographerPhotographDedicatedAfterlife Author:Sam Abell
“It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.” WorldWritingMayLittlesIdeasRealCharacterBitsTalkingLittle BitPhotographerPhotographOutcomesThemeReal WorldDocumentariesImaginativeInner WorldIntersectionsKernel Author:Sam Abell
“The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.” WantedProcess Author:Sam Abell
“I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the Geographic I was a teacher. Plus my parents were teachers and my brother and my grandparents. So it was the culture of our family to think about teaching, to talk about teaching, to talk about teachers.” ThinkingYearsCultureParentTeacherTeachingBrotherSixPhotographerOur FamilyMy BrotherPlusGrandparent Author:Sam Abell