"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."

Home, Environment, Feeling, Style

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"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."

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"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Home, Love, Feet

"A home without books is a body without soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Home, Soul, Body, Books

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Truth, Belonging, Acceptance

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

Home, Cat, Pet, Loyalty

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Home, Day, Healing, Public, Shadow

"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Don't come home a failure."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

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"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."

People

"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."

Work

"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history."

History

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

Photography

"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

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

Photography

"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

"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

"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."

Art

"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."

Blood