Edward Burtynsky Quotes
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.
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I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
