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• Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.

  Wendy Williams

  Kitchen, Sound, Fans

  "Wendy Williams Disses Beyonce: ‘She Sounds Like She Has A Fifth Grade Education’". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

  Stewart Francis

  Together, Ships, Saws

  "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

  Jason Reitman

  Meat Industry, People, Vegetarian

  "Jason Reitman grows up with young adult". Interview with Angela Watercutter, December 15, 2011.

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• Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

  Hedi Slimane

  Photography, Character, Sometimes

  "Hedi Slimane Interview: 'California Song' at MOCA Los Angeles". Interview with Isabel Wilkinson, www.thedailybeast.com. January 20, 2012.

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• As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Parent, Healthy, Alternatives

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Mean, Priorities

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• I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

  Robert Redford

  Independent, Thinking, Filmmaker

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• Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

  Marion Cotillard

  Moon, Men, Saws

  "Marion Cotillard's 9/11 conspiracy theory". Interview with Peter Allen, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 1, 2008.

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• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  Kirk Hammett

  Brother, Stars, Air Guitar

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• You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mind, Bears, Film

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects

  Boris Johnson

  War, Dancing, People

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• I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Self, Intuition

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• This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.

  Israel Regardie

  Spiritual, Order, Dawn

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• Documentaries are a form of journalism.

  Michael Moore

  Journalism, Form

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• Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

  George Orwell

  Party, Past, Expression

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back.

  David Haye

  Fighting, Animal, Pigs

  "PETA’s Sexiest Vegan Celebrities of 2014: Thandie Newton and David Haye Nab Top Honours!". www.peta.org.uk. December 23, 2014.

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