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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
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The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
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I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
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Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.