"Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history."

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Oriana Fallaci

#Eye Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Brain Quotes

“You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.”
“Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books
“When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.”
“I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.
“It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.”
“The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is”
“Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.”
“It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.”

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