Edward Steichen Quotes
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
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Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
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That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
