Elliott Erwitt Quotes
Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.Elliott Erwitt
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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I think music is to have fun. It's for people to have a good time with.
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If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
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I think women love to read love stories.
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I love pop music, I love country music.
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I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
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Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.
Elliott Erwitt
