Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
Robert Pinsky
Recitation: by Male by Female
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
John Bates Clark
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The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.
Matt Damon
PeopleMeLooking BackBelieveYou
Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote.
Ann Leckie
GoodEnjoyNowPersonallyReally
I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.
Amber Riley
RedPeopleChoicesYouChooseGo
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.
Skitch Henderson
BusinessNowStrangeRightRecording
Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.
Trevor Paglen
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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
Roger Ebert
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I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
Michel Faber
PeopleThinkYouSeriousLetters
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.
Dick Dale
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Your nature is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma
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Who hasn't had a weight issue? If not the body, certainly the big head!
Aretha Franklin
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'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.
Noah Hawley
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