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 will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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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'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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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 know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
