Aaron Siskind Quotes
If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I never really learned photography.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.
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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
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The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
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If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
