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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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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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
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It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry is there for a reason. Country music lives there. Don't be bitter. And don't ever treat Texas or Nashville like either one isn't important."
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.
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I'll always be an amateur photographer.
Elliott Erwitt
