Garry Winogrand Quotes
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.
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You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
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You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
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We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
