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"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
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"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."
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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
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"When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible."
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"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
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"I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night."
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"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."
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"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up."
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"In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima."
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"Life is short and progress is slow."
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"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
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"When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection."
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"This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer."
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"The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue."
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"I got quite good results from protein plates."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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