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There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.
I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
DIY skills are hot. The ability to put up a shelf and hang a picture is always good and being able to cook. Cooking's really hot.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
To me, the darkest film ever made and the film, to me, that's the darkest picture in the human humanity's soul is 'Pretty Woman.'
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.
The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
A lot of people don't see the vision, the dream you have. They're shortcutting you. I had to get them out of the picture. Totally.
Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent's secretary.
One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.
I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.
It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
I'm having a tough time coping in showbiz. I'm absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.
Mt. Gox was a teachable moment for everyone in the Bitcoin community, and ShapeShift has innovated these problems out of the picture.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.
I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.
Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!
People are really capable if you're able to give them the confidence to get something done and paint the picture of where we need to go.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.