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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."
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You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
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I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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