Annette Messager Quotes
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
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Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.