Chris Killip Quotes
My caravan was like a café and it [had] nice light because the windows were on both sides. It was a good place to photograph.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.
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All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.
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Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.
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I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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My caravan was like a café and it [had] nice light because the windows were on both sides. It was a good place to photograph.
