"Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice."

-- Martin Schoeller

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Records Quotes

“It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.”
“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.”

Source : "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.
“The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.”
“If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!”
“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.”

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse
“The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.”
“I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.”
“Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.”

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