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'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
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I'll always be an amateur photographer.
Elliott Erwitt
