Norman Parkinson Quotes
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
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I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
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I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
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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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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
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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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The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.
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In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
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Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
