Andrea Modica quotes

“Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely left out. With either extreme, photographing makes me have to deal with it.”
-- Andrea Modica

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“Whoever you are is to your advantage”
-- Andrea Modica

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“When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.”
-- Andrea Modica

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“I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.”
-- Andrea Modica

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“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“I don't look at myself as suffering.”

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.”

“Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.”

“Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.”

“Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.”