Richard Kern Quotes

One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an interesting looking girl. They're not being provocative. They're just presenting their drugs to you, showing you what they take. There's a good-looking girl, but here's this thing about her that's not so cool. It makes you feel a little uneasy.

Richard Kern

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
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• I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

  

  Faith Hill
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• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

  

  Jeff Bridges
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• Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
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• Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

  

  Don McCullin
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• I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
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• I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.

  

  Mary Halvorson
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• We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

  

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• For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

  

  Colleen Atwood
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• In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.

  

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• Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android - the Cyanogenmod. And they're on 50-million-plus devices. And that's just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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• Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

  

  Patti Smith
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• No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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• The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

  

  Calvin Miller
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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

  

  Peter Mayhew
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• One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an interesting looking girl. They're not being provocative. They're just presenting their drugs to you, showing you what they take. There's a good-looking girl, but here's this thing about her that's not so cool. It makes you feel a little uneasy.

  

  Richard Kern
  • Interesting
  • Photography
  • Provocative