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"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
"If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose."
"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
"It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to."
"Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."
"Without work, time cannot be converted and it will waste away."
"Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy."
"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction."
"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."
"It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them."
"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of."
"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."
"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."
"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
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