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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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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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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Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
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I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
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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.
