Bill Brandt Quotes
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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It is always your next move.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads.
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He always violated your expectations. … He was a character.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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You’re bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
