Ansel Adams Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)
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There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
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If you want to see great mixed martial arts, tune in when I fight. If you want to see drama and all of that stuff, you guys can go watch 'Bachelors in Paradise.' They'll give you enough drama you can want to watch.
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
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I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
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We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.