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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Claire Messud / Novelist
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

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Claire Messud Novelist

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I wish I were a really good photographer.

Claire Messud Novelist

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

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The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Alfred Stieglitz Photographer

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Anish Kapoor Sculptor

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Arthur Rock Businessman

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

Bill Viola Video Artist

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

Christine Pelosi Author

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

Erland Josephson Actor

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