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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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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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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There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.
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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 want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
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I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
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In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
