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 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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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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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
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What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?
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There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.
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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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What me and my girls are about is being confident in yourself.
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Perspective is a gift nowadays.
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Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
