Carolee Schneemann Quotes
Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I'm an emotional person.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
