"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves."
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"To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it."
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"Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves."
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"Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat."
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"I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it."
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"I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side."
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"Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake."
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"We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark."
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"For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love."
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"To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom."
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"Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional."
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"Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive."
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"Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world."
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"Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person."
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"People have the power to redeem the work of fools."
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"If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail."
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"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
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