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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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You

Worry

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" I've been slagged off completely by the art world. "

" I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. "

" I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. "

" One thing that success has taught me is censorship. "

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One Thing

Censorship

" I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. "

Tracey Emin

Life

Over

" It pleases me that people can be interactive. "

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People

Pleases

" I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. "

" It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. "

" Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. "

" People try constantly to use me, and I hate it. "

" I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. "

Tracey Emin

Enlightened

Start

" 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. "

" There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there. "

" 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. "

Tracey Emin

Long

Been

" My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. "

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My Life

Life

" 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. "

" Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend. "

" There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true. "

" There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me. "

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Nothing

Work

" I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you. "

" 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. "

" With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. "

" I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up. "

Tracey Emin

Way

I Am

" I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. "