Erik Madigan Heck Quotes

I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of my work. My career has evolved from literally figuring out how to formally structure a photograph, to going through graduate school and trying to formally structure my thoughts. A sort of gradual learning, then unlearning.

Erik Madigan Heck

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• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Now
  • Going

• I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Story
  • Connection

• Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Decision

• The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Disease
  • Here
  • Syndrome

• Ἑκὼν γὰρ οὐδεὶς δουλίῳ χρῆται ζυγῷ.

  

  Aeschylus

• I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Women
  • Law

• I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Believe
  • Control

• Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Political
  • Culture

• When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

  

  Kellie Pickler
  • Creepy

• Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Age
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• Winning is definitely contagious.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Winning

• Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Success

• I've always approached the game, going back to when I got drafted in 2012 to Denver, like I was going to be the starter. That's how you have to prepare, whether you are first string, second string or third string, because you never know when something is going to happen to the guy in front of you.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Guy
  • Game

• Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.

  

  Jason Moran
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• Your daddy had to go back to school a little. He had some strange thoughts - and he wanted other grown-ups to believe them. It's not right for others to believe wrong thoughts, is it?

  

  James Clavell
  • Believe
  • School
  • Thoughts

• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• All generalizations are false, including this one.

  

  Mark Twain
  • False
  • Generalizations

• Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  

  Jim Valvano
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of my work. My career has evolved from literally figuring out how to formally structure a photograph, to going through graduate school and trying to formally structure my thoughts. A sort of gradual learning, then unlearning.

  

  Erik Madigan Heck
  • Thoughts
  • Photograph
  • Graduate