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I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Tommy Lee Jones

Colors Present Want Actor See Tell

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

Men Job Think Present Powerful New

Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.

Music People Me Present You Know

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

Future Alone Ideas Believe Present

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Good People Revolution Present Bad

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.

Love Present Better You Yesterday

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

Me World Reading Deep Present Back

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Francois Rabelais

Wise Present You Know Foolish Made

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

Society Problems Present You Genuine

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Penelope Lively

History Past Present Collective Suit

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Present Long Leisure Because Simply

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Karl Liebknecht

Present Self-Defense National Wars

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

John Buchanan Robinson

Gold Financial Present Paper Because

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Douglas Coupland

Future Past Present You Look Either

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Music Present Guitar Wander Write

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

Character Think Present End Choose

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

Dreams Future Present You Excitement

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Child People Looking Reading Present

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Present Say High Popularity Invented

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

K. Eric Drexler

Today Best Stupid Medicine Present

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Past Think Present Living Really

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

Donella Meadows

Future Responsibility Present Workers

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Present Long Civilization Got Form

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Present Interesting Want Virtue Just

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