Edward Weston Quotes
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
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I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.
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I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!
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When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
