Rick Smolan Quotes
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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Truth is the best defense.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.
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I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
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I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
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Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.
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The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
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I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.
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My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
