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 would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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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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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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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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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I like mac and cheese.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
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When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
