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You've got to keep the child alive you can't create without it.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
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We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
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I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.
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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
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Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
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I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
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