"I am at war with the obvious."

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Source : William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Hasselblad Center (1999). “William Eggleston”

William Eggleston

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“If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.”
“We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.”
“Greatness canâ€™t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.”
“You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.”
“My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.”

Source : "Mollie King: Watching my godmother die has changed how I see things". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.
“Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.”
“Don't put yourself in a time-out.”
“The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.”

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