Douglas Kirkland Quotes
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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I always knew that I was going to be famous. I honest to God don't know how else to describe it. I used to lie in bed and wonder, 'Am I going to be a local TV person? Am I going to a motivational speaker?' It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: 'Of course.'
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Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
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Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
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I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.
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The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end, without weakening. You can do nothing else. But you must not believe that because you accept being nothing, you are anyone special.
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I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
