Tracey Emin Quotes
A British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).
(1963 - )
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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 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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I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
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I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.
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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'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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I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.
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I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
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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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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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It pleases me that people can be interactive.
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It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.
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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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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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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
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My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
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One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
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People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
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People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.
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