Nigel Barker Quotes
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.
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Photography is my only language.
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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.
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The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.
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The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.
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What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
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Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
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The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.
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Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
