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All Quotes by author - Tracey Emin
" 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. "
Drunk
Sober
My Life
" A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. "
Know
Man
Like
" I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up. "
Way
Am
I Am
" I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner. "
Kind
Show
Slow
" I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. "
Think
Young
Creative
" I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that. "
Good
Children
Friend
" I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. "
Because
Apology
Paper
" If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it. "
Great
Doing
Feeling
" I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. "
Hardly
Any
Who
" I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!' "
You
Worry
Me
" 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. "
Fun
Nice
Me
" I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you. "
Here
You
Better
" I never grew up. "
Never
Grew
Up
" In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked. "
Talking
Top
New York
" I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. "
Pet
Love
Friend
" I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. "
Only
Decided
Thought
" It pleases me that people can be interactive. "
People
Me
Pleases
" 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. "
Always
Budget
Conservative
" It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. "
Lot
Memory
Moment
" It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me. "
Destroying
Dancing
Much
" I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. "
Long
Like
Been
" I've been slagged off completely by the art world. "
Art
Art World
Off
" I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. "
Life
Me
Over
" I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. "
Enlightened
Start
More
" I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again. "
People
My Life
Life
" Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. "
Truth
Well
Truth Is
" My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. "
My Life
Life
Me
" My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. "
Stay
Low
Market
" One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect. "
Work
Dead
Life
" One thing that success has taught me is censorship. "
One Thing
Me
Censorship
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