I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story.
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
No documents, no person.
Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed political persecution in Russia, which they use our documents to back up.
All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.
I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.
A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.
But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.