Elliott Erwitt Quotes
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.Elliott Erwitt
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
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"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Elliott Erwitt
