Anton Corbijn Quotes
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.
