Werner Bischof Quotes
I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
