Brassaï Quotes
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
Quotes to Explore
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.
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I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
