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Herb Ritts

"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace."

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A.E. Samaan

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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A.E. Samaan

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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A.E. Samaan

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

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A.E. Samaan

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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A.E. Samaan

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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A.E. Samaan

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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Herb Ritts
"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."

Career

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Herb Ritts
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

Photography

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Herb Ritts
"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."

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Herb Ritts
"I like form and shape and strength in pictures."

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Herb Ritts
"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."

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Herb Ritts
"Many people who excel are self-taught."

People

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Herb Ritts
"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images."

Education

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Herb Ritts
"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace."

Being

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Herb Ritts
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

Photography

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Herb Ritts
"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."

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