Quotes About Weegee

#1. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

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#2. My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer ...

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#3. All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#4. Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

Paul Gibbons

#5. I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture ... it's gotta be good.

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#6. Sure. I'd like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It's exciting. It's dangerous. It's funny. It's tough. It's heartbreaking.

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#7. If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

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#8. The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

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#9. Like Niobe, all tears.

William Shakespeare

#10. The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud

Rachel Maddow

#11. Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

Damon Galgut

#12. Stay alert!" I told Blackjack. "I've got an idea." Oh, I hate your ideas.

Rick Riordan

#13. We are about to change history, said Saphira.
We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.
Ah, but what a glorious flight!
(Eragon to Saphira)

Christopher Paolini

#14. People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

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#15. This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

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#16. As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

Saint Basil

#17. People across the earth are aching to serve as your ambassadors in one form or another. Let them.

Gina Greenlee

#18. The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#19. A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

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#20. Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

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#21. The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

Frank Miller

#22. I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).

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#23. To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

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#24. There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it's the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

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#25. An artist is made up of madness with attitude

Subhasis Das

#26. May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

#27. What I did, anybody can do.

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#28. I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room ... I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

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#29. To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

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#30. Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

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#31. Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn't hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

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#32. News photography teaches you to think fast.

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#33. Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

Louis L'Amour

#34. It's been a strange [summer] ... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers ... Of course, I included myself.

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#35. A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

Dan Gilroy

#36. I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

Matt Chandler