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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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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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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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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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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Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock.
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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.
