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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
Robert Barry
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I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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