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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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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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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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
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The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."
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Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
