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artist sitting sage
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Charles Bukowski
artist careers damage
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. Ron Silver
artist nerd chance
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process. Susan Sarandon
artist care defeat
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us. Susan Glaspell
artist parent honor
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could. Sufjan Stevens
artist self jazz
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Studs Terkel
artist great-art great-artist
a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ... Stevie Smith
artist talking law
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that. Stevie Wonder
artist play exciting
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do. Stevie Wonder
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self way ifs
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive. Viggo Mortensen
self impossible priceless
What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong. Victoria Moran
self enemy doubt
Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit. Victoria Moran
self guy former
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? Victor Cruz
self saint care
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion. Victor Hugo
self denial egotism
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. Victor Hugo
self goal upset
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit. Vernon Howard
self unseen behavior
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. Vernon Howard