I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young people to ask me that because once they know I'm serious, they'll be willing to ride with me.
I'm not just buying a car - I'm buying a lifestyle!
When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.
The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.
Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night. . . Without the satisfaction.
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too.
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.