Imogen Cunningham Quotes
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
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It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
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The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
