David LaChapelle Quotes
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.
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I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
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We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.
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I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
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My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
