Distance Quotes - Page 38

• Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.

  Paul Cornell

  Helping, Helpful, Junkie

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.

  Michael Haneke

  Black And White, Reality, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the deliberately synthetic way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw," which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world.

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Trying, World

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the limitation of slavery; while he had only the most feeble means of enforcement. The British and the French could do their emancipating at a distance; Lincoln had armed resistance almost literally at his doorstep.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Country, Mean, Slavery

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

  Unknown

  True Friend, Sunflower, Never Fade

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• I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of thing. I respect those photographers that work that way. But part of my personality is a certain amount of distance, and part of my attraction to the medium of photography is this distance where you're in the world, but you're removed from it.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, People, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Past, Different, Shy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to be ignorant of popular music. Goldsmith says, "Nobody thinks twice nowadays about listening to everything!" Something that had seemed so uniquely, radically syncretistic in Flynt's day seems much more commonplace now.

  David Grubbs

  Thinking, Ignorant, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The first time I went to the Oscars was surreal. It wasn't really me walking the red carpet. It was like watching a movie of a Hollywood premiere. You have to have an intellectual distance from it, because it's so atypical from your everyday life.

  Mark Hamill

  Intellectual, Everyday, First Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Art, Thinking, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• On one level, I'm interested in how the space dictates the effect visually - how the composition of a given work changes depending on the nature of each wall. But I'm also trying to emphasize less tangible elements: the amount of time it takes to walk the gallery's perimeter; how one's physical distance affects his or her sense of the overall composition; how the size of the space creates a sense of visual rhythm. It's really a matter of seeing how much structure is necessary to impose for those things to become apparent.

  Landon Metz

  Wall, Trying, Rhythm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.

  Liao Yiwu

  Country, Chinese, Democratic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.

  Valeria Luiselli

  Invisible

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been through an extra filter, another consciousness, in the guise of the translator. Some of my favorite writers who have written in English were doing so without English being their first language, so there's a sense of distance or of distortion there, too. Conrad. Nabokov. These writers were employing English in interesting ways.

  Katie Kitamura

  Reading, Interesting, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Hoh Valley is an incredibly secure area. Any event occurs around us, we will instantly become informed of that event. This can even happen at a distance. When the body recognizes that you have a very large listening area, and you're getting all the information, the body relaxes. You can breathe more gently, the cortisol levels that are created by stress in our bloodstream dissipate, and we actually become healthier. And as a result, if we are actually fortunate enough to live in a place like that, we will live longer.

  Gordon Hempton

  Stress, Listening, Relax

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I need to have one foot inside and one foot outside a culture to be able to write about it. For example, I couldn't write about the gay culture if I were wholly inside or outside of it. Finding that distance is always interesting. I jokingly say that when I'm in America, I write about Beirut, and when I'm in Beirut, I write about America. A lot of my friends in Beirut think I'm more American than Lebanese. Here, my friends think of me more as Lebanese.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Writing, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.

  Unknown

  True Friend, One Line, True Friendship

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• If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I was a child, even though I grew up in an era of highly processed food, the grocery store sold local field peas, lima beans, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. While there is a deep sense of place in the South - and the foods of this place - I don't want to present a pastoral vision of the contemporary South. The majority of Southerners cannot access fresh, local, affordable food.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Sweet, Children, Garden

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of that word. To be too obviously, unapologetically emotional is to risk being considered foolish, or at the very least not serious.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Emotional, Risk, Age

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• I don't believe you can make an honest film about another person in all their complexities from a place of distance. You can make a journalistic report, you can judge someone from a distance, but you can't really get to know them.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Believe, Judging, Honest

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What is your thing supposed to sound like?" You know: "What's the thing you do," that everyone can recognizably tell from a long distance is you and then you're supposed to be in search of that marker and you're supposed to find it and you're supposed to live there for the rest of your life. And it seemed to me, from a young age, that was what I was encouraged to do. You find a sound and that's your sound! That's what you do.

  David Lang

  Thinking, Long, Age

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• Effective leadership relationships at a high level include the insertion of a degree of distance from those being served. That may be part of what President Ronald Reagan referred to when he mused that he didn't see how anyone could be president who wasn't an actor.

  James M Strock

  President

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• Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.

  James M Strock

  Intimacy

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• One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Block, Mean, Support

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• I've given myself a bit more of a break in that I can't say yes to everything. I have to prioritize, and obviously it starts with your children. But I used to be much later on the list. I've started putting myself within a safe distance from that first priority. You just have to remind yourself to not forget about your relationship and to not forget about yourself. And it's interesting, because I have a very fraught relationship with working out.

  Brooke Shields

  Children, Work Out, Interesting

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