Saul Leiter Quotes
I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
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All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
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This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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We each have the kind of children we deserve.
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
