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.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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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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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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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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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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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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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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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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My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
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The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.
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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.
