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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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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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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
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Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.
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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.
