Garry Winogrand Quotes
I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
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People are really interested in economic security.
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
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Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
