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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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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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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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