Minor White Quotes
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
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Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
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Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
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In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares,to hone my acting skills.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
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I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.
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I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.
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A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
