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• Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.

  Max Dupain

  Thinking, Mind, Different

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• To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.

  Horst Faas

  Mother, Baby, Expression

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• We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet... It's what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I'm saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored.

  Adam Fuss

  Running, Cameras, Lenses

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• Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.

  Vik Muniz

  Art, Dark, Empowering

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• For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves: if someone is half-naked and having self-confidence or you have the feeling that she has or he has control of the situation. She likes to do it. Then I have nothing against it. But it's true that society doesn't talk about such issues. They just talk about whether there is a breast or not, but for me it's more interesting how the power game of camera and object is shown. And if it's a cool picture.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Self Confidence, Games, Issues

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• I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image... And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.

  Julius Shulman

  Stupid, Average, Careers

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• ...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.

  Beat Streuli

  Reality, Imagination, Documentaries

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• ...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you.

  Larry Sultan

  Boring, Process, Teach

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• My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Real, People, Looks

  Interview with Peter Halley and Bob Nickas, www.indexmagazine.com. 1997.

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• Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Cost, Enterprise

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Young

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• Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rivers, Promise, Frogs

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, New York, Dark

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.44, Crown Forum

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• ...liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Air, Dozen

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• Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jail, Space, Drug

  William F. Buckley Jr.'s Address to the New York Bar Association, www.nationalreview.com. July 28, 2014.

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• We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

  Haley Barbour

  Rain, Tree, Environmental

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• I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

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• I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Morning, Rain, Eye

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Heart, Three

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• I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

  Robin Williams

  Catholic, Guilt

  "Robin Williams Live on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. July 14, 2002.

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• Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracies Have, Enemy, Democracy

  H. L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.50, Read Books Ltd

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• The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with an eye on the wishes of our "coalition partners." It has been fought to assuage the Arab "street." It has been fought to satisfy the diplomats rather than the generals... Why have we not loosed the B-52s and the B-2s to carpet-bomb Taliban positions? And why are we giving the Taliban sanctuary in their cities? We could drop leaflets giving civilians 48 hours to evacuate, after which the cities become legitimate military targets.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Military, War, Eye

  "Not Enough Might" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2001.

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• I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

  Tommy Bolin

  Guitar, Years, Two

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• It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

  John Lennon

  Uncles, Causes, Ems

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• If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Doors, Goal

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