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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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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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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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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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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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?
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My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor.
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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.
