Ellen von Unwerth Quotes
Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... but once you've perfected something you have to start searching for a new toy. I would rather search for a new model or location.
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The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
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With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.
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What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
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Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
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It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever, sooner or later they will give themselves away.
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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
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Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
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If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
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To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.
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Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.
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I still believe in marriage.
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I am entering into the truth, into nature.
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The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
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Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.
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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... but once you've perfected something you have to start searching for a new toy. I would rather search for a new model or location.
