Elliott Erwitt Quotes
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.Elliott Erwitt
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
Elliott Erwitt
