Eve Arnold Quotes
It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
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My life was pretty rough.
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My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.
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Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
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People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
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It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
