You don't take a photograph, you make it.


Ansel Adams

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If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
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You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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BRYAN ADAMS
I like the idea of helping people help people.
BRYAN ADAMS
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I&...
BRYAN ADAMS
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter....
BRYAN ADAMS
I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sen...
BRYAN ADAMS
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
BRYAN ADAMS
I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my hea...
BRYAN ADAMS
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas...
BRYAN ADAMS
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media...
BRYAN ADAMS
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on havin...
BRYAN ADAMS
I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
BRYAN ADAMS
Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We ...
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When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn'...
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any...
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. Tha...
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything a...
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I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be...
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compa...
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our societ...
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