Cornelia Parker Quotes
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I was very rebellious.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.
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There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.
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I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.
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I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
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There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
