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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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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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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I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
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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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I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
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Photography is an accident.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.
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The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.
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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.
