D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

D. A. Pennebaker

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PeopleCameraYouFastLightsThree

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

LifeFuturePastDeathMindBelieve

Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.

Megan Rapinoe

EyesCountryLooksJust Because

I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime.

Steven Hatfill

I AmEyeLookKnowWantNothing

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.

Roger Zelazny

NatureGoodGreatPeopleWriting

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

Montel Williams

Black And WhiteRacismPeopleThink

Don't laugh at a hair joke, Trump.

Lisa Lampanelli

HairLaughJokeTrump

The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.

Lisa Madigan

PeopleActionFinancialSecurity

I have a lot of confidence in my game. I love to play with confidence, be aggressive, and that's just how I've always done it.

Jordan Spieth

LoveConfidenceGamePlayDoneJust

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

Jonathan Davis

TimePeopleMeTryingFindEarth

I put a lot of time into making sure my relationship with my family is well taken care of because I want to be as successful as a father as I am as an entertainer.

Dierks Bentley

FamilyFatherRelationshipTimeI Am

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Ciaran Hinds

LifeGreatShortLandscapeWhy

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Paul Theroux

PeopleWritingBookReadingAlways

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