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 cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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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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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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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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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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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 can move, but I've never background-danced for anybody.
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People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions - warmth and competence. You can think of them as trustworthiness and strength. They're first judging you on warmth; evaluating whether or not you are trustworthy. That's much more important to them than whether or not you're competent.
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Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.
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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.
