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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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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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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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.
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Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.
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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.
