David Burnett Quotes
Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
Quotes to Explore
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
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I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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My way is to look forward, not back.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
