Eve Arnold Quotes
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
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I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.
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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
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Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
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There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals who do both, but it's not everyone.
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My dad was career Army.
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
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I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
