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" My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. "
Tracey Emin
Stay
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Market
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" 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. "
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" I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up. "
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" When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. "
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" Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. "
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" 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. "
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Great
Doing
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" A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. "
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" I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. "
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" 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. "
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" I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. "
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" It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. "
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" 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. "
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" I never grew up. "
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" 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. "
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" I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. "
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" 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. "
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Children
Friend
" 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!' "
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Worry
Me
" One thing that success has taught me is censorship. "
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One Thing
Me
Censorship
" I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. "
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Over
" What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. "
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Going
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" The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess. "
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Think
Sit
" I've been slagged off completely by the art world. "
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Art
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. "
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" I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you. "
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" There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me. "
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