Peter Beard Quotes

I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

Peter Beard

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• The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Possible
  • Uncertainty

• Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Apple

• I just love math and most people don't.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Love
  • Math

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

  

  Ben Jonson
  • April

• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Money
  • Boy

• There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Good
  • Work

• I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

  

  Kristin Cast
  • Success
  • Dog
  • Horse

• But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Just because I am a celebrity doesn't mean I can't say, 'Sorry.'

  

  Karan Patel
  • Celebrity
  • Sorry

• I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Photography