"A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait."

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Source : Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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“DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.”
“It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.”
“I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.”
“I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.”
“For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.”

Source : "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.
“Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think musicians should stay off television generally.”
“Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.”

Source : "'Conrad Black: NY Times is 'anti-Israel'" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. November 29, 2012.

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