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"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers."
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"Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another table, our once-cozy booth transforms into a damp fusion of vacuous wretchedness, with the three women all complaining alternately about their wet hair/clothes and their respective distance from Talon, while the man himself is trying to maneuver his Paul Bunyan frame way too close to me."
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."
"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
"A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians."
"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."
"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."
"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move."
"So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it."
"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish."
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"Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil."
"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."
"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."
"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."
"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."
"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself."
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