Herb Ritts Quotes
It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.
Quotes to Explore
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
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I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.
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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
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Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.
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John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
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What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
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Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.
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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
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Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.
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It’s not about hair, it’s about being you-whether that’s something the industry has seen before and accepts or not.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
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Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?
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It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.
