Kiki Smith Quotes
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'
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Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!
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I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
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If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
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I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then, when I graduated, that didn't happen immediately. I didn't suddenly get solo shows in Chelsea, and I realized that is actually kind of difficult to break into.
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I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
