Brassaï Quotes
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
Quotes to Explore
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
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Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
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I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.
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What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise
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If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
