Nick Brandt Quotes
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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I love being from Wisconsin.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.
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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.
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I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
