Edward Weston Quotes
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.
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I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
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Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
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Ideas kill people.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.
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I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
