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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Clearly in a world where they are behind (players such as MCI WorldCom), it's not a matter of ease. It's a matter of time frame.
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
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My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.
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Qualifying for the final has already been a big breakthrough for China, so I felt no pressure at all before the final today. I just told myself that I would do my best and fight for the best results for China.
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
