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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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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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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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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When you think of a Vine video, it's like thinking about an experience you've had, which people can relate to.
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Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
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Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
