Ansel Adams Quotes
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
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The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
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Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?
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As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.
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We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.
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There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.
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My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.
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Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.
