Viola Davis Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Natalie Maines
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
Warren G
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Fetty Wap
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
Lady Gaga
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
Yaya Han
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
e. e. cummings
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
Indra Nooyi
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You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
Joanne Rowling
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I want to do rock operas.
Corey Feldman
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Viola Davis