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Carol Friedman is a scientist and biomedical informatician. She is among the pioneers the use of expert systems in Medical language processing and the explicit medical concept representation underpinning the use of Entity–attribute–value modeling underpinning electronic medical records.

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When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over and over again by people who don't really know what to do for them, and I know I'm going to make them happy and I can't wait to work with them.

People, Waiting, Reputation, Make, Work

I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.

Thinking, Grace, Soul, Lena, Horne, Embodies

This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.

Lenses, Like, Move, Moving, Picture, Shields

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they. . . that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know. "

People, Say, Think, Thinking, World, Writing

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

Cameras, Stubborn, Assistants, Visceral, Sheets

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that. "

Attached, History, Jazz, Looks, Musician, Wow

I kind of - you learn it, you master it, and then you make sure that it just disappears. You know, like if I could have invisible lights, I would, and invisible cameras. I'm just really trying to get at my subject and I respect the technical aspect, but it is not anything that I think about at this point.

Learn, Light, Master, Point, Thinking, Trying

I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.

Fun, Important, Long, Make, Soundtracks

I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.

Generosity, Instance, Mentor, People, Thinking

A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind of fun to figure out who they came up with and who they emulated or who they idolized actually.

Fun, Player, People, Kind, Musicians

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

Certain, Extracting, Life, People, Share

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never. . . I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just. . . I don't know.

Everything, Girl, Half, Know, Love, World

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

Session, Knows, Comfortable, Music, Dance

You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be.

World, Care, Want, Meet, Intern

We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line. . . so I want to help them achieve that.

Blonder, Doctors, Mirror, Mirrors, People, Person

For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of my subject and then it is giving them their idealized version of themselves.

Artist, Capturing, Giving, Idealized, Picture Taking

Everyone hates their picture being taken and they're nervous and they're bringing all of that. When I meet with them they realize it is a collaboration and they look forward to coming back.

Collaboration, Coming, Forward, Hate, Look, Taken