Garry Winogrand Quotes
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
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Wenn ich nur dasjenige weiß, und von ihm überzeugt bin, was ich selbst gefunden, – nur dasjenige wirklich kenne, was ich selbst erfahren habe, so kann ich in der That nicht sagen, daß ich über meine Bestimmung das Geringste wisse; ich weiß blos, was Andre darüber zu wissen behaupten.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
