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 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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If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.
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Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.
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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
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I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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I'll always be an amateur photographer.
Elliott Erwitt
