Eve Arnold Quotes
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.
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I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.
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My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
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Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
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A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
