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For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
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Louisville
Kentucky
Gus Greene Van Sant Junior
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Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.
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When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.
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