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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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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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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In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.
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Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
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I feel like everybody's got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It's never really over.
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I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
