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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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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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Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
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It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
