Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.
Quotes to Explore
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I want to be a major force.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
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Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.
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Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
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Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.
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For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
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The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
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I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
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Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.
