Antoine D'Agata Quotes

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Me

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decisions

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Problems
  • Down

• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Today
  • Political
  • Politics

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Being
  • Production
  • Proteins

• I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Things
  • Comfort

• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Learning
  • Football
  • Wise

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Work
  • Brand

• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Life
  • House
  • City

• When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Alone
  • Band
  • Car

• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Need
  • Flying

• I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

  

  Tony Scott
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Real

• It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

  

  Antoine D'Agata
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Photographer