W. Eugene Smith Quotes
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
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'Boom! That's the house, right there, Robert. That's house I'm doing a B&E (breaking and entering).' He looked to me and he said: shakes head and makes hissing noise through nose. Moment of silence. 'I don't know what that means, but I'm doing it.'
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
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I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
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Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
