"It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism."

-- Jon Landau

#People Quotes #Maintaining Quotes #Professionalism Quotes

“I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.”
“To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.”
“The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.”
“The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.”
“I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.”
“I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.”
“You become that to which you are most exposed.”
“I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.”

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