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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
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I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
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When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
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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.
