Douglas Slocombe Quotes

I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.

Douglas Slocombe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 10, 1913 - February 22, 2016

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LifeLoveThinkPicturePhotography

I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.

Jim James

MusicPeopleMeFeelTalkingYou

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

John Barrasso

GoodHistoryChildLegalImmigration

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

John Gregory Dunne

HistoryWarPeopleVietnam WarHow

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

Amanda de Cadenet

TruthMeEyeSheAskContact

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

Sophia Amoruso

BusinessPainSchoolRisksPeople

I have played at the Bernabeu twice with Bayern Munich, and it was a magnificent experience.

Toni Kroos

ExperienceTwiceMagnificentMunich

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Rowan Williams

PeopleYouNewSayTrueWill

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

Mike Rounds

ForwardYearNewsNowMoreOut

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

Dee Rees

WaterPeopleComplacencyHousing

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

Coretta Scott King

WorkTodayNowYearsNonviolence

My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so warm, generous, and kind-hearted. She never washed her dirty linen in public. She always maintained her equations with people.

Arjun Kapoor

MotherPeopleMeWorldWarmPerson

The industry and support in China has really matured because there are so many productions there. At the same time, there's been a lot of changes in the market, which I think also has enabled productions like 'The Grandmaster' to happen and to be possible to shoot in China.

Wong Kar-wai

TimeSupportThinkPossibleChanges

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