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I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

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Wayne White
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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I want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
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I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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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.
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Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.
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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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I'm a sign painter with no boss.
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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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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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Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
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All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.
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No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself. There's always someone like that.
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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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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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