Dawoud Bey Quotes
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.
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I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
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Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
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I don't believe that you are ever done. Is life ever going to stop and stand still? We have to move as fast as the world is moving.
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Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
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I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
