Garry Winogrand Quotes
Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my flight. Stop wastin' my time.' They're doing it to protect us. Their job is to do everything they're doing. We sometimes don't respect other people's jobs because we're caught up in our world.
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I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What I like best about music is when time goes away.
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A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.
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Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
