Moyra Davey quotes
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“To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.”
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“I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.”
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“I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.”
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“When you hate the thing that you're working on, that's when you question it.”
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“Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.”
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“You can't be judgmental. You have to do your best not to be, I think.”
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“I actually like a film in a gallery, because you don't have to show up at a certain time to see something, you can just walk in whenever. I like that freedom to be able to see something anytime. I personally don't mind watching something knowing that it's not the beginning and then just letting it run its cycle.”
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“Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives me a kind of liberty to say things that I otherwise wouldn't. It's always my hope that it will come across as me and not me at the same time.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass”
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Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.28
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