Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'
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I don't fetishize objects.
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The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
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Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged.
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Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.
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Don't be down on that you're not up on.
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We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
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Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
