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Quote by Ronald Reagan

“I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)”

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The 40th President of the United States, born on February 6, 1911, and passed away on June 5, 2004. Reagan's presidency was marked by economic prosperity and military strength, and he was known for his conservative political philosophy. more

“I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.”

People Thinking Heart Enough Moments Stories Waiting My Own Becoming Clicks Shutters Story Writers

Author:Eudora Welty

“[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.”

World Strange Ordinary Accepted Familiarity Ordinary World

Book:Occasions: Selected Writings

Source: Occasions: Selected Writings

“I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.”

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Author:Eudora Welty

“A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.”

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Author:Jim Bishop

“It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.”

Cry Safe Window Mirrors Photograph Rings Noses Palaces Velvet

Book:Winter Trees

Source: Winter Trees

“I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.”

Hands Left Drink Coffee Smoke

Book:The Most of George Burns

Source: The Most of George Burns

“It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.”

Matter Shows Success Successful Show Business Seals Axioms

Book:Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

“There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.”

Way Dies Bed Best Way Not Alone

Book:Wisdom of the 90s

Source: Wisdom of the 90s

Quote by Ronald Reagan

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