Sam Abell
Related ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.'... BILL ATKINSON It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results w... JOHN SEXTON JOE MCNALLY For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exc... JOHN SEXTON I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York... SUNG JIN PARK DAWN FRENCH Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straig... SALLY MANN He came in young. He was very intelligent at that age; I don't think he was 21. He was a nice person... EDWARD KING The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia... DEVAL PATRICK Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in ... GUY JOHNSON SHELDON LEE GLASHOW I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photograph... ALAINA HUFFMAN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the... RANDY BACHMAN My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictu... STEVEN KLEIN HELMUT SCHMIDT I don't know how it happened. Through the din of the crowd, I heard this tiny scream. As small and d... TESS OLIVER It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I r... DAVID MAISEL FRANK MCCOURT I grew up in the Midlands area of England around the Birmingham area and when I was four years old, ... DAVE HOLLAND I had never seen anything like it. It was dark, it was full of American GI's and it was kind of thre... GEORGIE FAME We had a love-hate relationship with that house. It was dark, and the vertical living got to me with... CHRISTINE MCKEON 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON SOURCE UNKNOWN TORI AMOS When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the de... TIM WALKER My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when h... ROALD DAHL Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop. WANDA E. BRUNSTETTER Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed PROVERB In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he foun... BRUNO SCHULZ ROBERT FROST KURT VONNEGUT JR. KING GEORGE V His father had taught him to never be taken advantage of or be disrespected, ... Songwriting and pub... PETER GURALNICK ANN PATCHETT It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of ... J.M. RICHARDS For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father... JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared w... OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 ... AMANDA BURTON DEYTH BANGER The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never r... LOUIS FABIAN BACHRACH My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ... CARRIE MAE WEEMS But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my he... DAN HARRIS We needed that game. That was our goal after losing last night. This was kind of the same game, but ... FRED BENCRISCUTTO I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS FIDEL CASTRO ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY When Leah got hurt, Sam was kind of our only pitcher. She went through a stretch where she had the b... STEVE WAMMER When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but ... LEE HAZLEWOOD My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He... LYNETTE FROMME DIANNA AGRON SOURCE UNKNOWN JUSTIN BIEBER FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. MICHAEL PRITCHARD Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are
developed. MICHAEL PRITCHARD I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot... ANTHONY BROWNE I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night ... LAURE EVE LIZA MINNELLI JACK CANFIELD The darkroom is just the means to an end. KIM WESTON It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom. LACEY CHABERT J.R.R. TOLKIEN SUZANNE COLLINS MICHAEL DAVIS The water was like a foot deep in my cellar. ... It was a real pain in the neck. DENNY BAILEY My father thought photography was done by lowlifes. SAUL LEITER WINONA RYDER He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m... BILL HARMON MALCOLM MCLAREN Over the course of my career there's been many that have been memorable...without reservation, the m... MIKE KEMP He told me that his father was in hospital after having a heart attack and the only way he could com... IAN ROWLANDS W. BRUCE CAMERON DEYTH BANGER It was pretty tough. I had no one to practice with, and it was just Coach beating up on me. I was th... KYLE ZIGELSKY NEIL GAIMAN J.D. STROUBE MARA WILSON GRAHAM NASH ERNEST ISTOOK My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to ... LEE GRANT STEPHEN KING JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT CASSANDRA CLARE It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi... NANCY ROMAN JESSICA LANGE EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Yes, I've been keeping these 'children' of mine in bondage in my wine cellar and finally had the str... DAVID PETERS It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall... ELIZABETH DUNN BURGESS OWENS JEAN-PAUL SARTRE CAROL GUZY That first round was a great win for Eli. That was a great win to have at the end of his senior year... MIKE BLAKE I have no idea how we (meaning his father) will celebrate tonight. We had a lot of fun this week tog... EDOARDO MOLINARI CRYSTAL WOODS
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up. SAM ABELL As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and sho... SAM ABELL Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of vis... SAM ABELL There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for ... SAM ABELL There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what ... SAM ABELL For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Jap... SAM ABELL 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning s... SAM ABELL I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it... SAM ABELL In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take th... SAM ABELL My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the sch... SAM ABELL When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to st... SAM ABELL My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. SAM ABELL Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to p... SAM ABELL Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this ... SAM ABELL A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. SAM ABELL It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. SAM ABELL I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie... SAM ABELL Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then." RICHARD ABELL We actually started having meetings yesterday morning. GARY ABELL That's why we're doing what we're doing. GARY ABELL Every county gets money under this plan. GARY ABELL What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 1... GARY ABELL It's been a great ride. JOHN ABELL It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound, JOHN ABELL I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement. JOHN ABELL I wasn't much older than the students. They were 18, and I was 22, JOHN ABELL The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the c... DON ABELL I thank the Lord for the air she got. God is alive. He looks after all of us. You just have to have ... DON ABELL Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the me... DON ABELL Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the rig... DON ABELL Family programs tend to be the ones the green-eyeshade people go after first. CHARLES ABELL I hope, that in the end, we acknowledge that we should be advisers, mentors, teachers (and) coaches.... CHARLES ABELL It is mostly art; not so much science. It is, above all, influencing human behavior. CHARLES ABELL My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM SAM KEAN SAM WALTON SAM YAGAN SAM HOUSTON SAM KEEN SAM KEEN SAM LEVENSON SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. 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SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo... SAM HUNTINGTON My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b... SAM HUNTINGTON In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t... SAM HUNTINGTON I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w... SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ... SAM HUNTINGTON SAM HUNT SAM HUNT
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Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense la... 
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... 
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. H... 
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... 
[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to... 
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that... 
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar... 
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better ... 
I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghast... 
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... 
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about o... 
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church i... 
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. 
I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around scho... 
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed. 
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just somet... 
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendatio... 
Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin... 
It was done in one night. It was one performance only. That was it. That was our shot. 
The Bible A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was the custo... 
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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. 
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My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting w... 
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... 
I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years. 
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught ... 
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... 
If losing Sam had taught me anything, it was to seize life-seize everything it had to offer, includi... 
Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with. 
There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of... 
It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it... 
We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect... 
I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime... 
I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylva... 
I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I k... 
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close... 
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. 
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal... 
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... 
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul... 
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... 
I like power and I like to use it. 
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. 
I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. 
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo... 
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. 
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... 