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"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."

"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

"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."

"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."

"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."

"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
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"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."


"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"


"I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school."


"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."


"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."


"Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance."


"I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road."
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