Garry Winogrand Quotes
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
Quotes to Explore
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.
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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.
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
