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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
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"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."
"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
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"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."
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