Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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When one is an artist, what else can he be?
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
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The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Friendship is one soul in two bodies.
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I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
