Elliott Erwitt Quotes
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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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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoedown. I'm sorry.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.
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God ever arithmetizes.
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I'll always be an amateur photographer.
Elliott Erwitt
