William Albert Allard Quotes
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Most of the suits I try to wear are bespoke.
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Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
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Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
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What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
