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Jennifer Lee Filmmaker
Artist

"The main joy I have in owning or being a part of my own label is the platform I've created to really push other artists and this other kind of musical muscle I get to exercise, it's not just me as a creator of music but me as a curator. That's been really exciting and I do get to have the autonomy and control and all those things with my releases, but now I get to go and find artists that I really love and like and share them with the world too."

Artist Joy Exercise
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Jerry Adler Actor
Artist

"Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all."

Artist Magazines Bourgeoisie
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Jose James Musician, Singer
Artist

"I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And also just [her] being a non-conformist."

Artist Rights Holiday
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Matt Smith Actor
Artist

"There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve."

Artist Sacrifice Discipline
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Michele Lee Actress
Artist

"My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain."

Father Artist Makeup
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Artist

"I don't think I realized what was going to be the hardest part of becaming an artist until I dove off the diving board ... first I had to overcome a pre-speculated idea of me. I had to sort of burst through that and introduce myself, and that was the first hurdle, and then now sing in front of everybody, and then that was the second one, and I'm the offspring of - you know, who I'm the offspring of - I had a few hurdles to get through, no doubt about it. But the scales never tipped in the other direction too much."

Thinking Artist Doubt
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Artist

"There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff."

Real Artist Strong
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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter
Artist

"To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do."

Artist Memories Crazy
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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
Artist

"Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality."

Country Artist Suicide
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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
Artist

"But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters."

Character Fighting Artist
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Earl Monroe Basketball Player
Artist

"I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!"

Years Artist Blood
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Artist

"An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under."

Men Artist Strong
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Artist

"The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."

Way Two Artist
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