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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After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.
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There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.
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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.
