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"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
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"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."
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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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Explore more quotes by Shirley Knight
"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."
Work
"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"
Thought
"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
Artist
"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."
People
"Men are allowed to get older and women are not."
Men
"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
Learning
"When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts."
Time
"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."
Mother
"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
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"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
Television
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