Minor White Quotes

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

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• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

  

  Ed Asner
  • College
  • Thought
  • Acting

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Hope
  • Differences

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Hope
  • Forever

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Family
  • Child

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • People
  • She
  • Book

• Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

  

  Plato

• I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • Character

• New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Music
  • Friends
  • House

• People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • People
  • Attention

• Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

  

  Minor White
  • Attention
  • Photography
  • Objects