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" When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here. "
Tracey Emin
Reason
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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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" A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. "
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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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" They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up. "
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" I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. "
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" I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. "
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" 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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" My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. "
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" People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. "
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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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