Zana Briski Quotes
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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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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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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But why? Why don’t I want to fight when fight is all I’ve ever known and loved? I’ve fought for every inch of joy I’ve ever known.
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God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is unstoppable.
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A person who is innocent is extremely humble.
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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
