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Elliott Erwitt Quotes

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: french
Birth: July 26, 1928

Topics

Life Beauty Time Fun Simplicity Wit

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Family Birthday Good Son Children

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Jerry Lee Lewis

God Talent Practice People You Tell

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

You House Done Need Going Get

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Morning Late Up Fields Horses Every

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

Politics Dirty Want Petty Politician

I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.

Bond Loved Director Two Everything

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Success Seed You Desire Want First

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

Want More Everything Fact Much

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Me Song You Go Never Always

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.

Molly Crabapple

Father Women Great Men Say Admire

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Mother Children Woman Queen Me Rare

I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

Girl Beautiful Think Meet Hollywood

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