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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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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I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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With feminism social media just opened up its boundaries even more. Now all these different tribes of women can connect with each other, and also find each other if they're not living in the same city, or even if they are but they're not friends with the same people!
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
