Carolee Schneemann Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I have fabulous children.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
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Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
