James Nachtwey Quotes
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Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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Politics is a good thing!
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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The world of Debussy is a seductive oasis, and it is hard to leave it after spending many days immersed in its atmosphere. Playing Debussy-or any other composer with a strong and idiosyncratic personality-affects not only one's cast of mind but the physical disposition as well, the way the muscles work and the fingers come into contact with the ivories.
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One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.
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I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
