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.

Margaret Bourke-White

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• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• 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.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Money
  • Help
  • Attention

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• 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.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Done

• Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Me

• People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Kind
  • Direction

• Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Diversification

• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Silence
  • Entertainment

• 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.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Soul
  • Deep

• Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Time
  • Home
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Model

• Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Son
  • April

• I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • America
  • Fear

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Technology

• For someone who has been so important to my career, I have had absolutely no interaction with O.J. Simpson one-on-one in my whole life. I've tried many times. I have written him in prison, I've had other contact ... but he never responded, so I have never had a conversation with O.J. Simpson, never met the guy.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Guy

• We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Important
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Important
  • Understanding
  • Photography