William Eggleston Quotes
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
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I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.
