Andre Kertesz Quotes
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Honest communication is a rare thing.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
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Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
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I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.
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I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.
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I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.
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Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!
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Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.
