Garry Winogrand Quotes
In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
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I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.
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Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
