Patrick Demarchelier Quotes
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
