Bill Eppridge Quotes
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
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When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
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Com'รจ in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
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I'm not usually absolutely speechless.
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When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.
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Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
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Working with people who are kind and who are good people really means a lot to me.
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A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.
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Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
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I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
