Anne Truitt Quotes
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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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.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.
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We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.
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There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
