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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When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
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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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A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
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I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.