"It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them."

-- Odilon Redon

#Judging Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one”
“I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.”
“When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.”
“To line only for some unknown future is superficial.”
“God and posterity will show me more favour”
“A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.”

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