Brett Weston Quotes

My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.

Brett Weston

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• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Different
  • Character
  • First

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
  • Day

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Everything
  • Furniture
  • Toys

• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Characters
  • Many

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Door

• I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Bad

• I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I never turned back from that point. That's what made it so sweet to me to win a championship after what I went through. I had to scrap and fight to get through it, and to reach the pinnacle made it even sweeter.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Sweet

• Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

  

  Bjork
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Wind

• Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Fashion
  • Brazil

• My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.

  

  Brett Weston
  • Work
  • Language
  • Photography