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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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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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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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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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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Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'
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Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.
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My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
