William Wegman Quotes

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

William Wegman

• Children
• Photography
• Loneliness
• Overcoming
• Isolation

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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
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• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
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• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
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• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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• I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Ours

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
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• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
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• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
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• Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Work
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  • Job

• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Help
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• If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

  

  Wendy Cope
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  • Parents
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• The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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  • Over

• I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
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• A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

  

  Josh Bowman
  • Humor
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• I was kind of lost for several years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Lost
  • Kind
  • Years

• People say a story is a window into another mind, another world. I believe they are more mirrors that windows. In them, we glimpse ourselves dressed up as the characters. And like any reflection, the truth we see can be hard to swallow.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Truth
  • Story
  • Reflection

• You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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  • Learn

• It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

  

  William Wegman
  • Children
  • Photography
  • Loneliness