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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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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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 wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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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 like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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I paint for the check cashing place down the street.
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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.
