Alexey Brodovitch Quotes
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
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You cannot win if you cannot run.
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If you know yourself, you are doomed.
