Brent Stirton Quotes
Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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I was born with an evil face.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.
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During my high-risk pregnancy, I consistently experienced subpar care from my hospital, which led me to hire two midwives instead. They provided me with excellent and loving care, and they made my pregnancy a truly special and powerful moment in my life.
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The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.
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Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.
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For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!
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I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.
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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
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It's not a straight line to do anything breaking the law. Because if it is, basically you're saying if I cop to having PTSD, I can go out and slap somebody around all I want, and when the cops show up, I can claim I am a veteran, and I got PTSD - that's not how that works.
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In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.
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There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
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Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
