William Boyd Quotes
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.
