"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

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Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

Brooks Atkinson

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“I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.”
“The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting, in the first place.”

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“What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.”
“And that's when it fell off in my hand”
“We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.”
“You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found,”
“No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.”
“Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

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