Andre Kertesz Quotes
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
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I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.
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There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.
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I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
