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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.


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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.


Chris Martin
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
Galen Rowell
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For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
Tom Hollander
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There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
Gustav Klimt
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For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.


Will Smith
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Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Duane Michals
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Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.
Lynsey Addario
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I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.
Steve Zahn
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The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.


Paul Reubens
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The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.


Warwick Davis
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
Victor LaValle
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Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.


Tori Amos
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I want to show people there's more to me than they think.


Rebecca Black
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People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
Tomas Transtromer
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein
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The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.
Troy Polamalu
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams
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If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Lynn Johnston
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