Irving Penn Quotes
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
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Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.