"For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture."

-- Gisele Freund

#Knowing Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.”
“The only reason race matters is because of racism.”
“Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.”
“I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.”
“Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.”
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
“My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.”
“That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.”

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