Nikki S. Lee Quotes
What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.
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In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
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Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
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If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.
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Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.
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I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.
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The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
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TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
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And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.
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What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.
