"Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem."

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Source : Creative Camera, №№ 163 - 174, 1978.

Howard S. Becker

#Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes #Details Quotes

“Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law.”
“There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.”
“It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.”
“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”
“Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.”
“I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.”

Source : "Fashion Therapy" by Liz Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 1, 2010.
“If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.”
“Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.”

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