Edouard Boubat Quotes
All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I'm an emotional person.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.
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Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
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It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
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Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
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All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.
