James Nachtwey Quotes
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
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I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
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Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
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Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
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Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.
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Pat Robertson doesn't worship the cross. He worships the fucking dollar sign.
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Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
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We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989.
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None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
