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Shirley Knight

"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."

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"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."

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"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."

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"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."

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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."

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"The best artists are gone now."

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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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"As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box."

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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."

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"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."

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"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."

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"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."
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"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!"
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"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."
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"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."
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"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."
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"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
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