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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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'
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The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I am, where I’m going and what I still want to achieve from this life in music. In my heart I feel vital and passionate about the creative process and that my best work is the next one I finish. It doesn’t necessarily work out that clean, but for me, it can be the only touchstone.
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If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
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The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.
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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.
