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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Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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We have to work together. We have to support each other. When we hear about a wonderful woman, we have to tell other women about her. Help her, prop her up. Give her what she needs. That's a big lesson.
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I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
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Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.
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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.
