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Cornelia Parker Quotes

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

Cornelia Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1956

Topics

Work Look Working Artists Come

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Joaquin Phoenix

Funny Humor Experience Think Way

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Elephant Where Drown Would Lamb

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Good Experience Story Just Because

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

You Will Old Years Pretty Give

I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.

Rosemary Mahoney

Myself Perfect Mentor Because Wanted

The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.

Time Best Road Reality Week You

I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.

Travel Fly Class London Possible

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

Dimebag Darrell

Cats You Kind Out Coming Lifetime

My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing.

Music Teacher Time Shoes Poetry

When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.

Growing Up Church Horse Farm Growing

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

Together People Believe End Trying

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

Day Born Titanic I Was Born Shot

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