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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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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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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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong - we get paid a lot of money. There's a sense of 'shut up and play,' that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we're like zoo animals. We're not human beings.
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Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
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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.
