Harry Callahan Quotes
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I like to discover new things.
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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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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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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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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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I am confident. Otherwise, I will not be working as I am working.
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People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
