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"I've been slagged off completely by the art world."
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"I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun."
"They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up."
"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."
"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."
"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons."
"They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world."
"I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective."
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