"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

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"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."

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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."

Photography, Years

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

Money, Desire, Portraits

"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."

Science, America

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."

Life, People, Questions, Silly

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."

Man, Men, Hollywood, Ugly

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."

Talent, People, Photography, Teaching

"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

Mind, Names

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

People, Books, Future, Reading

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."

"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."

"I hate big models."

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."

"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."