Bill Cunningham Quotes
Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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Think and grow rich.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.
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Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
