Garrison Wynn Quotes
Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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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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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
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Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
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I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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'Instagram' Direct is a really interesting feature because it's grown significantly since we launched it. People continue to use it to communicate more privately.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
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I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.
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Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.
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Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life
