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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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It's always good to be underestimated.
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Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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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.
