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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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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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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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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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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I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.
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The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
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I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
