Black And White Quotes - Page 19

• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

  Bill Henson

  Littles, Shade, Tiny

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the black-and-white dialectic in which most of America still seems trapped. I have always recognized that, as an American, I am in relationship with other parts of the world; that I have to measure myself against the Pacific, against Asia. Having to think of myself in relationship to that horizon has liberated me from the black-and-white checkerboard.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Fall, Thinking, San Francisco

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

  Paul Bettany

  Becoming, World, Grey Areas

  Source: collider.com

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• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Leather Jackets, Sweaters, People

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• The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Grandmother, Moon, Order

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

  Michael Stipe

  Art, Rocks, Mtv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

  Mark Strong

  Successful, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

  Amy Plum

  World, Life Is, Easier

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• It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Simple, Nuclear, Term

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• I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

  George Lopez

  Demographics, Appeals, Shows

  Source: movieweb.com

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• A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

  Noah Baumbach

  Color, Tvs, Film

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• In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.

  Martin Parr

  Color, Years, Lasts

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Beautiful, Moon, Love Is

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• Doesn't  the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

  Tablo

  Real, Color, World

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• ...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Men, White Man

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

  Robert Longo

  Interesting, Painting, Photograph

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Divorce, Thinking

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.120, Penguin

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• the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
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  and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

  Frank O'Hara

  Truth, Fighting, Racism

  Frank O'Hara (1969). “Odes”

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• Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Teenage, Regret

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• Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

  John Lydon

  Army, Color, Green

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.113, Picador

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• Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

  Phillip Noyce

  Years, Cities, East

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• Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Slave Labor, Competition

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• At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Book, People

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• Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

  John Boorman

  Color, Choices, Television

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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