Joan Osborne Quotes
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
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As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
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Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.
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To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.
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But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
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Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.
