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When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
Wayne White
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Wayne White
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Muralist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Morton Thiebaud
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Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
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I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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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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