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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To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
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I am greatly honoured to become Patron of The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre. I have benefited hugely from their work, and I am looking forward to supporting them in giving a chance to others to benefit from their experience and teaching.
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I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.
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We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
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Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
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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.
