"I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel."

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Irving Penn

#Cameras Quotes #Scalpels Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.”
“The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.”
“I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready...”
“The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.”
“My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.”

Source : "The Martian". Book by Andy Weir, 2011.
“I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Jungle: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

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