Quotes by Giles Duley - Page 1

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.
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Creativity
Restriction
Restrictions
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It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
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Can't Change
Happened
It Is What It Is
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War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.
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War
Loses
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I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.
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Believer
Bigs
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I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.
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War
Conflict
Photographer
Consequences
Dealt
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People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.
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Statues
Look People Never
Complete
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I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
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Photograph
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If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.
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Destroy
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I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
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Deserve
Praise
Love Believe I Believe
Love Believe People
Athletes
Rarely
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For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
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Disabled
Time Me Body
Time I Am Me
Labelled
Meeting
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I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.
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Communication
I've Learned
Lessons
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Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.
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Effects
Hitchcock
Tension
Computer-Generated
Create
Showing
Ways
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It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.
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Painful
Protection
Your Body
Blown
Mode
Scrape
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When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.
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Intimacy
Minutes
Portraits
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I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.
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Fashion
People
Years
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I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.
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Fighting
Ignorance
People
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I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.
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Dying
People
Thinking
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To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.
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Legs
Lucky
Senior
Blown
Bomb
Mine
Patrol
Step
Survive
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When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work.
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Missing
Photographer
Skills
Productively
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For most Olympic athletes‚ their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians‚ training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
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Athlete
Differences
Struggle
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For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
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Everyday
Everyday Life
Athletes
Escape
Hardships
Limit
Olympic
Push
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I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.
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Barcelona
Childhood Memories
Helping
Idols
Johnson
Memories
Olympics
Love Memories Childhood
Michael
Finish
Lewis
Sir
Snapped
Steve
Thompson
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For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.
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Trust
Discomfort
Empathy
Great Responsibility
Honestly
Pain
Photograph
Photography
Responsibility
Come
Act
Sure
Advocate
Also
Somebody
Documentary
Hear
Images
Right People
Story
Tell
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