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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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
