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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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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."

"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."

"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."

"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."

"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."

"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."

"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."

"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."

"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"

"You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."

"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."

"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."
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