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“If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,”
Source : "Yayoi Kusama Birthday: The Polka Dot Queen Of Avant-Garde Art Turns 84", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.
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“For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.”
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“Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.”
Source : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin (1826). “The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir”, p.87
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“It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.”
Source : New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993.
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“[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."”
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“For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.”
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“But today in the United States, and this shows you where fascism REALLY exists, Any doctor in the United States who cures cancer using alternative methods will be destroyed. You cannot name me a doctor doing well with cancer using alternative therapies that is not under attack. And I know these people; I've interviewed them.”
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“When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're sort of in the day-to-day world, you're certainly there for your day-to-day relationships with people, and so on.”
Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.