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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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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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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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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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 understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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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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What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.
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Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
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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.
