Dawoud Bey Quotes
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.
Dawoud Bey
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps
There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
Caitlin Kittredge
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig
I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
Taylor Lautner
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
Warren Spahn
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern
The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
Deborah Tannen
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
Luis Alberto Urrea
I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's a dystopian kind of thing, and that's natural, of course. But it's surprised me - not even surprised me, but it's pleased me - how much people have been responding to the way the book was written.
Chang-Rae Lee
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.
Dawoud Bey
