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  • Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about. -- Nigel Barker
  • Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. -- Pamela Yates
  • Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. -- Annie Leibovitz
  • This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life. -- Philippe Halsman
  • Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know. -- John Abizaid
  • Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know. -- John Abizaid
  • Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member. -- Ira Sachs
  • My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances. -- Justin Chadwick
  • More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life. -- Chad Hurley
  • Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. -- Tom Waits
  • As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps. -- Carlo Ratti
  • Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. -- Harvey Fierstein
  • I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper. -- Helena Christensen
  • These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze. -- Richard MacDonald
  • Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe. -- Saul Griffith
  • For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
  • Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup. -- Kellan Lutz
  • The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote. -- J. C. Watts
  • A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently. -- Garrett Camp
  • Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling. -- Kevin Spacey
  • I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well. -- Jools Holland
  • I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me. -- Roger Deakins
  • Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern. -- Juan Williams
  • When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. -- Jonathan Zittrain
  • When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old. -- Jason Reitman
  • Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar. -- Alexis Ohanian
  • The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. -- Howard Staunton
  • Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
  • Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection. -- Georgina Chapman
  • The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. -- F. Murray Abraham
  • Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Directing music videos is all about capturing images. -- Nia Long
  • I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • It's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a moment. -- Erik Johansson
  • Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive. -- Barry Nalebuff
  • Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk -- Gary Crowley
  • A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. -- George Vancouver
  • I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world. -- Illeana Douglas
  • I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment. -- Michael Pitt
  • A writer is not interested in explaining reality, heâ??s only interested in capturing it. -- Brendan Kennelly
  • The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people. -- Ernesto Sirolli
  • Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. -- Fred Wilson
  • There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs. -- Jay Samit
  • There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles. -- Dorianne Laux
  • Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. -- David Hockney
  • I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment. -- Fennel Hudson
  • People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories. -- Jonathan Nolan
  • The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. -- Muhammad Iqbal
  • If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph. -- Rene Burri
  • Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. -- Stephen Colbert
  • I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself. -- Tracey Moffatt
  • We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image. -- Neil Young
  • It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. -- Walker Evans
  • There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do. -- Iwane Matsui
  • A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted. -- John A. Logan
  • I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles. -- Charles Darwin
  • When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle. -- Bob Lefsetz
  • At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening. -- Pedro Meyer
  • GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content. -- Nick Woodman
  • I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound. -- Joey Sturgis
  • As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps. -- Carlo Ratti
  • Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time. -- Richard Preston
  • What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention. -- Bruce Mau
  • As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films. -- Alexander Payne
  • Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence. -- Roksanda Ilincic
  • In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe. -- Albert Camus
  • All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself. -- Debbi Fields
  • Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view. -- Gary Carter
  • During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health. -- Kenneth Goff
  • The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later. -- Charles Fleischer
  • I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems. -- Paul Wolfowitz
  • Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations. -- Fernand Point
  • [The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Most of us focus so much on 'capturing' the moment that we don't realize we keep losing it for the next which we will lose next:-) -- Prashant Chopra
  • Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements. -- Catherine Jinks
  • I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls. -- Ann Wroe
  • The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense. -- Ruth Rudner
  • The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies. -- Paul Ormerod
  • Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event. -- Joe Berlinger
  • Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past. -- Milan Kundera
  • I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro. -- Nick Woodman
  • What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information. -- Sally Mann
  • Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty. -- Frank Miller
  • There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I've gotten used to it. -- Audrina Patridge
  • I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else. -- Jay-Z
  • It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent. -- Eugenie Anderson
  • Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian. -- George Barna
  • I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers. -- Nelson DeMille
  • Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core. -- Andrew Stanton
  • I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go. -- Ellen von Unwerth
  • As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film. -- Sam Raimi
  • Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food. -- Michael Pollan
  • I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that's the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been. -- Tim Walker
  • I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent. -- Gary Shteyngart
  • The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you. -- Noel Fisher
  • You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it. -- Jimmy Page
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