Paul Strand Quotes
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.
Quotes to Explore
-
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
-
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
-
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
-
Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
-
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
-
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
-
'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
-
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
-
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
-
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
-
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
-
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
-
You can stroke people with words.
-
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
-
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
-
I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
-
We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.
-
I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
-
I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.
-
There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
-
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.
