Brassaï Quotes
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
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Reason is lost reasoning.
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
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I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.
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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
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I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.
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Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.
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The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
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Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
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The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
