"I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening."

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Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

Eve Arnold

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Cameras Quotes

“Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.”
“God plans all perfect combinations.”
“Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.”
“Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.”

Source : Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.45, Tuttle Publishing
“Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.”

Source : Janette Rallison (2009). “How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend”, p.119, Penguin
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.”
“With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneâ€™s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneâ€™s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”

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