Ansel Adams Quotes

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Style

• Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Difficult

• Every fight and every loss taught me something.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Loss

• I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Kids
  • Animal

• It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Life
  • Culture

• The country is increasingly culturally conservative, with a small C. Every time marriage is on the ballot, it passes. People are increasingly pro-life. They don't like taxes.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Environment

• I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Sky

• Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

  

  Brett Somers
  • Up
  • Good
  • Free

• It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • Good
  • Children
  • Future

• But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Money
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Study

• There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • World
  • Good
  • Patriotic

• I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

  

  James Gray
  • Life
  • Done
  • Wish

• Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Home
  • Culture
  • Two

• In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Abstract
  • Integration