Eve Arnold Quotes

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

Eve Arnold

• Moving
• Break
• Musician
• Photograph
• Photographer
• Concentration

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• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
  • Nightmares
  • Pale

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Culture
  • Without
  • Mythology

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • You

• I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Women
  • Down

• It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Actress
  • Interview
  • Wearing

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Bad
  • Behavior
  • Reward

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Free
  • Culture

• I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Find

• I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Game
  • Think

• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Write

• I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Like
  • Imagination
  • Leave

• À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?

  

  Victor Hugo

• So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Road

• Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Poetry
  • Needs
  • Breathing

• My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Career
  • Careers
  • Haphazard

• I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Order
  • Students
  • Bike

• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Lying

• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Moving
  • Break
  • Musician