Alvin Langdon Coburn Quotes

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• In my beginning is my end.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End

• The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

  

  Oliver North
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • War

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Screwed

• In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • School
  • Character
  • Law

• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Values
  • Act
  • Be Prepared

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Church
  • Wonder

• What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • People
  • Love
  • New

• When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Long
  • Black
  • Light

• Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Done
  • Joy
  • Always

• I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • May
  • Support

• I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Irish

• The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • World
  • War

• The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Collaboration

• One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

  

  Nick Hanauer
  • Success
  • Collaboration
  • Consequence

• You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?

  

  Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Stop
  • Fall
  • Tears

• Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • Alone
  • Grandmother

• A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

  

  Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • Collaboration
  • Portrait
  • Photographic