W. Eugene Smith Quotes

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Money
  • Know
  • Less

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Kind
  • Voice
  • Born

• It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Going
  • Farewell
  • Any

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• For my life, I need to make my own choices.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Choices
  • My Life

• I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Exercise

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Man
  • Creation

• I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Women
  • Think
  • Myself

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Up

• I'm afraid the people of Putney said: 'Up your hacienda, Jimmy'.

  

  David Mellor
  • People
  • Up

• I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Up
  • Decision
  • Emotional