Irving Penn Quotes
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
