"Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way."

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Source : "Visual Research Methods". Book by Peter Hamilton, 2006.

Howard S. Becker

#Musical Quotes #Cameras Quotes #Musician Quotes

“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.”
“I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.”
“I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.”

Source : "There is life after Friends". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.
“Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes”
“I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.”
“Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home”
“Being able to connect with people with similar taste and style also allows people to get to know us better. Although we have been around for a little, some people listen to our music and some people don't listen to our music, so it's nice to be able to curate the sounds and show our influences. Although it's nice to go out and look fancy and dress up, you don't always go to parties where the music is a good so it's nice to be in a position to bring the vibes and create the experience.”

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