- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Documenting Quotes
On keeping a record, and how rarely that record stays neutral.
These quotes look at documenting as both a personal habit and a public reckoning, from a social media user thinking hard about what's worth sharing, to a memoirist who says her real focus is effect, not documenting reality exactly as it happened. One line takes documenting into geopolitics, criticizing years of soft diplomacy toward Iran's government.
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- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.
- Manners
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020