Douglas Kirkland Quotes

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

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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

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

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• 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

• I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Drama

• As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

  

  Maurissa Tancharoen
  • Children
  • Why

• There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

  

  Steve Porcaro
  • Band
  • Poet
  • Tried

• Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.

  

  Nobuyoshi Araki
  • Reality
  • Photography
  • Invention

• Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant.

  

  Socrates
  • People
  • World
  • Truth

• For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
  • Way
  • Tradition
  • Delicate

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

  

  Douglas Kirkland
  • Photography