In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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