David Hurn Quotes
The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I'm not a leading man.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.
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This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.
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Puerto Rico still has the wherewithal to be a tourist destination.
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The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.
