Cindy Sherman Quotes
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
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Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light.
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I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
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I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
