Aaron Scharf Quotes
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? “No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I'm just a worker.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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Every fight and every loss taught me something.
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
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In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.
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Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time.
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I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.
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People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
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With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.
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Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
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I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.
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There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? “No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.
