Erik Johansson Quotes
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
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Every fight and every loss taught me something.
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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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We went all dark and grimy for 'Riverdale.'
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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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Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
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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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I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.
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I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
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I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.
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The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
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I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.
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The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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The invention of photography has made the painter and the patron lose interest in the likeness and transfer it to some more formal pattern. Our whole sensibility has been re-created by such subtle shifts.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
