Douglas Kirkland Quotes

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Douglas Kirkland

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• The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Work
  • Perfect

• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Messy

• I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Job
  • Try
  • Field

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Apple

• I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

  

  Ben Jonson
  • April

• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Money
  • Boy

• There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Important
  • Country
  • May

• I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Long

• People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Wall

• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Disappointment
  • Landscape

• I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Film

• I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

  

  Douglas Kirkland
  • Photography