"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
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"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.“
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"How sweet it is!"
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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