Ansel Adams Quotes
We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
Quotes to Explore
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
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You must be wise, but not too wise.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.
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When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.
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I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.
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I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.
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It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
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The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.
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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
