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I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.
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People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.
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When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.
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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.
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When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
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Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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I want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
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Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is.
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I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.
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I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
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Being an artist is a lifestyle.
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I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before. I want also to have enough art references in it that would satisfy the most sophisticated museum goer.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
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