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• The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.

  Elizabeth Neel

  New York, Block, Fall

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Baby, Children, Mean

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• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spiritual, Law, Space

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Depressing, Reality, People

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• Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

  David LaChapelle

  Way, Bigger Than Life, Worship

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• Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

  Eugene Richards

  Jobs, Real, Editors

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• I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

  Laurie Foos

  Live Life, Mind, Mixtures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Matter, Investment, Activity

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• Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Piercings, Scientist

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• For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John Adam has filled a gap in that venerable genre with his painstaking but simple mathematical descriptions of familiar, mundane physical phenomena. This is nothing less than a mathematical field guide to inanimate nature.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Animal, Simple, Understanding

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• I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  People, Skins, World

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Beautiful, Reading, Skills

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• There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.

  Taylor Swift

  Stars, Moving, Love Is

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• I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

  Ti West

  Stuff, Realistic, Seeing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

  Jon Gordon

  Passion, Everyday, Ordinary

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Thinking, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.

  Russell Sherman

  Art, Reflection, Essence

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• People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

  Kim Harrison

  Believe, People, Looks

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• I didn't like mundane life.

  Jeanne Calment

  Mundane Life

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• One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Dream, New Relationship, Giving

  "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.

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• As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

  Bruce Campbell

  Lines, Stuff, My Favorite

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Museums, Drug

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• We're kept so busy focusing on things that are extremely mundane while the people that possess the real power are deciding what our reality's going to be.

  Mr. Lif

  Real, People, Busy

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• Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

  Christina Baldwin

  Mom, Spiritual, Monday

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• Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memorable, Details, Analysis

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