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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life
Gordon Parks
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Gordon Parks
Age: 93 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 30
Died: 2006
Died: March 7
Actor
Artist
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Fashion Photographer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
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Fort Scott
Kansas
Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks
Gordon Alexander Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
Electricity
Enthusiasm
Life
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Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.
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Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
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