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.

Nikki S. Lee

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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.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • End

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Beauty
  • Photography
  • Patience

• I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Say
  • Percent
  • Auditions

• 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.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Great
  • Live
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Live
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Marriage

• All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Done
  • Father
  • Cutting

• It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • History
  • Political

• I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Money
  • My Life

• There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Cooking
  • Caring

• 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.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Different
  • May

• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Different

• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Nice
  • Judge
  • Rain

• The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

  

  Valeria Lukyanova
  • Children
  • Ideas
  • Deep

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

  

  John Irving
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Live
  • Car

• I am alive. I am human. I am loved.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Human
  • Loved
  • Alive

• 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.

  

  Nikki S. Lee
  • Emotional
  • Camera
  • Pictures