Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
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Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
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Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
