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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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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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.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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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.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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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.
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I want every Grammy.
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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.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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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.
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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.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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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.
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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.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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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.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
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My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
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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.
