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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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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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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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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But now we're here we have bought a few things. They were offering discounts, and my wife can't help herself when it comes to a bargain.
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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.
