Dawoud Bey Quotes
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.
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You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more accommodative - supporting asset values and lower borrowing costs for households and businesses and thus encouraging the spending that spurs job creation and a stronger recovery.
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I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.
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I like to do a lot of research for my films and live my character.
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It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
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For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.
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I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.
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I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.
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Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
