Best quotes by Brandon Stanton on People
Checkout quotes by Brandon Stanton on People
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‟ Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.
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‟ It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
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‟ When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.
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‟ I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.
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‟ The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
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‟ The interviews have gotten much longer with 'Humans of New York.' When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I'm approaching somebody on the street, I'm spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
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‟ My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.
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‟ I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
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‟ It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
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‟ Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.
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‟ New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.
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