Ansel Adams Quotes
Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.
Mandy Bujold
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
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U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
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'The Bank Job' was great fun to work on. Roger Donaldson is a top director, and working on HD was a new experience. It picks up every detail, which is a blessing and a curse if you think about it.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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The divine is in all things.
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I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
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When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.
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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
