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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After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.
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I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
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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.
