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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The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.
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My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.
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Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.
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Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.
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While acting in 'W,' my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
