William Eggleston Quotes

I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

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• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
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• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I want every Grammy.

  

  Young Thug
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• There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

  

  Rahul Dravid
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• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
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• I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

  

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• When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

  

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• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

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• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

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• I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'

  

  Sam Heughan
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• But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

  

  Terry Kath
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• Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

  

  Dan Emmett
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• You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

  

  Janet Jackson
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• I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

  

  William Eggleston
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