Jacques-Henri Lartigue Quotes
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.
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I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.
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I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.
