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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."
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Personal Development
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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Personal Development
"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
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"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)."
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"Our act started at the bottom and went downhill."
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Personal Development
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."
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"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
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"If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."
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"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation."
Reaction
"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
Earth
"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
Work
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
Essence
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
Earth
"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
Joy
"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
Portrait
"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
Work
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
Photography
"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
Act
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