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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.


Agnes Smedley

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AGNES OBEL I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your ...
AGNES OBEL The value of art is in the observer.
AGNES MARTIN I'm not into having a pedigree dog.
AGNES OBEL In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie ...
AGNES GUND One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
AGNES MARTIN For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not lik...
AGNES BRUCKNER I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new ima...
AGNES VARDA Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDA Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk ...
AGNES REPPLIER I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
AGNES OBEL I don't have a daily routine at all.
AGNES OBEL I love the conversation between film and music.
AGNES OBEL When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic...
AGNES OBEL When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
AGNES OBEL It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to ...
AGNES OBEL With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting some...
AGNES OBEL I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of d...
AGNES OBEL I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
AGNES OBEL I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't...
AGNES OBEL I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
AGNES OBEL My parents were very relaxed about music.
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