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270 Photographer Quotes

Push worry, anxiety and society back and learn to live.

Push Worry Anxiety Learn
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Even after photographing for 16 years, I still consider myself a novice. I am still learning.

Photographing Consider Novice Learning
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Life is a journey; there is no one way that works for everybody. I have learnt to make my life simple.

Work Learnt Life Simple
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Make the necessary plans, set goals but understand that the things that really matter, are out of your hands.

Necessary Plan Matter Hands
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Your gift keeps improving when you feed it and take risks. Push further to a bigger goal.

Goal Improving Feed Gift
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The pressure on women is plenty, but you have to learn to live and love. Live one day at a time.

Woman Love Learn Pressure
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My quest for God drives me. I want to know who made me-it is about self discovery.

God Discovery Quest Drives
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I have made up my mind that anything I can’t be the best at, I won’t do it.

Mind Anything Best Made
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Area Boston Harvard Never
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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Close Effects Framing Much
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Characteristics Chief Mob Quickness
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
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A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Mindless Mob Often Said
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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The rule is: my mother has to be able to watch everything that I act in. If my mum can’t watch it, I can’t do it.

Rule Watch Act Mum
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I am not here to make anybody comfortable, I am here to achieve every single goal that my heart desire and achieve I will.

Comfortable Goal Achieve Heart
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Your reputation will always precede you; integrity is key.
Reputation Integrity Precede You
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Life is tough, but always remember you’re tougher.

Tough Remember Tougher Life
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I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

Am Climb Conquer Feel
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
Angle Behind Best Cut
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We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.

Base Fan Get Growing
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We did something this year that was not based on animosity.
Animosity Based Did Something
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There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

Amongst Cracking History Much
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The industry is a menace to artists.

Industry Menace Artists
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It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

About Deliver Happens Hearts
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

About Album Band Cool
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If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

Cracking Forget Jokes Just
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I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Adult Authority Listen Lot
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I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Being Dad Forgive Loser
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I don't want to jump through hoops for people.
Hoops Jump People Through
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Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

Because Change Formats Going
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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Dudes Industry OK Say
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There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

About Am Best Kids
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How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

Arena Bands Biggest Ever
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If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
Actually Beneath Dissect Going
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You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

Everything Love Want You
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Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

First Gets His IPhone
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I've always had an eye for the oddities in life.

Always Eye Had Life
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