Emmet Gowin Quotes
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work out if everything is willing to allow it to work out.
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I wouldn't be where I am without my dad. He's a genius.
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Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.
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Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
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I really don’t worry about that anymore. When you’re dying, you don’t have time for that junk. The shit people did to you? It’s over.
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My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.
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The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us.
