Valerie Thomas quotes

“I'm gathering Kylie thinks that all it takes to capture an image is to point and shoot. That's what everyone thinks. But there's a lot more to it. It's taken me years to frame things correctly. People assume you can't take good pictures on an iPhone, but they're wrong. Some of my best shots are on the phone.They're raw and simple, and most of the time no one knows you're taking a picture. It's much better than the thousand-dollar Nikon my dad got me for Christmas. I don't think I've used it in months.”
-- Valerie Thomas

Source : Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.150, Egmont UK

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“Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.”
-- Valerie Thomas

Source : Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.267, Egmont UK

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“I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.”
-- Valerie Thomas

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“Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.”
-- Valerie Thomas

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“I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.”
-- Valerie Thomas

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“Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.”
-- Valerie Thomas

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“I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.”
-- Valerie Thomas

Source : Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.144, Egmont UK

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“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”

“My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.”

“My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.”

“What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.”

“My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.”

“The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press

“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”

“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

“One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.”

Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”