Eve Arnold Quotes
I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
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I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
