Nancy Spero Quotes
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
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I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!
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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows.
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I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.
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I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.
