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I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel Duchamp
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
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