Imogen Cunningham Quotes
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
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The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each other, that's a big miss. That is not true at all. At all. My women connect with each other instantly and help each other.
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
