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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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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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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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I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.
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I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.
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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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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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I'm a sign painter with no boss.
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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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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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Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
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But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
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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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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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Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.
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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
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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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