Brassaï Quotes
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.Brassaï
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
Maika Monroe -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly -
I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
Ian Lustick -
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
Hanna Rosin -
In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
Nancy Kress -
They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
Kacey Musgraves -
I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Eddie Murphy -
I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.
Abbas Kiarostami -
There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
Brown Campbell
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy -
One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have children before. I had been married only a year before my space station mission, so having three-year-olds is a whole new experience and that's the new adventure. It may sound funny because people have kids every day, but having your own kids, having my own kids, was as fundamentally, or maybe even more fundamentally life changing then even flying in space.
Leroy Chiao -
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
Edward Jenks -
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
Ben Nicholson -
The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
Maisie Williams
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Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.
Ernie Els -
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.
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