Garry Winogrand Quotes
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I still have a young attitude.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.
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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.
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I like to go and watch 'Blade Runner,' which made no sense but which I loved going into that world. I think people loved going into the world of 'Dune' with all of its problems.
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I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
