William Eggleston Quotes
The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.William Eggleston
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
Rachel Cusk -
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
Ma Huateng -
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams -
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger -
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth
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Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee -
I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
Tali Lennox -
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe -
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
Fat Joe -
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
Gail Collins -
I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
Natalia Makarova -
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis
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TO-MORROW, to-morrow, thou loveliest May,To-morrow will rise up thy first-born day;Bride of the summer, child of the spring,To-morrow the year will its favourite bring:
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.
Enrique Iglesias -
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
Ralph Steadman -
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.
Jane Velez-Mitchell -
The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.
William Eggleston