Chris Killip Quotes
I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
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The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
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What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.
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The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.
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I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.
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I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
