Saul Leiter Quotes
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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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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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.
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I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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I am well placed to know that Le Pen is not an anti-Semite. If one considers his life seriously... a man who went to fight with the Israelis in '56! Many times, he tried to better the party's relationship with the Jewish community, even though I do not like the term.
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Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
