Edie Sedgwick quotes

Edie Sedgwick was an American socialite, actress, and fashion model, closely associated with artist Andy Warhol. She became a prominent figure in the New York City art scene of the 1960s and was considered a "Warhol Superstar." She left a lasting influence on popular culture and remains an icon of style and the counterculture movement. Here are 56 of her quotes:

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. (Edie Sedgwick)
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. View quote
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I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored. View quote
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In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem....Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. View quote
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If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand. View quote
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself. View quote
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You live alone, creating your life as you go. View quote
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Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling. View quote
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I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident! View quote
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power. View quote
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Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't - it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego. (Edie Sedgwick)
It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way. View quote
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I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part. View quote
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When I started going around with Andy people thought I had a press agent. I didn't. After a while I got sort of paranoid about all the publicity, and I holed up in my apartment and cut off the telephone for two months. I saw only two people. Then I felt ready to go out again. I want to do more acting. I like it, but it's hard - the long hours, getting the lines straight, I didn't have to do that with Andy. View quote
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I had no money. My parents closed down all credit. I couldn't get any money, and they were trying to lock me up again because I'd taken some acid and told my psychiatrist about it. I just told him what the experience was like and he jumped, and at the same time he read about Andy Warhol's "pornographic" movies in Time. I was in the studio a lot, so my psychiatrist got really upset and called my parents and was gonna have me put away, so I ran away to Europe with Andy and Chuck. View quote
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Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic [laughs]. Can you believe it? That's so sad. View quote
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It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange. View quote
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do. View quote
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I'm out of my mind! Somebody told me that a long time ago. Some idiot! [laughs] ... In a dream. I don't want to think about dreams now. View quote
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It's okay - I know. View quote
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The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things! (Edie Sedgwick)
I think drugs are like strawberries. That was something I was very much a part of, but at the same time there's that incredible nightmare paranoia... it drives human beings crazy. It frightened me to see it around me... I had everything that could be moves stolen by speed freaks. Things began to disappear. The Queen Bee Speedfreaks and Amphetamine Annie had found out where my apartment was. All my jewelry was stolen and all my expensive clothes. Dior, Balenciaga... just tons of originals. By the way, have you heard anything about my furs? Everybody's wearing them. View quote
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I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem. View quote
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I moved out to Santa Barbara to straighten out, supposedly, and I started using drugs, which I found were plentiful in Isla Vista, around the college campus - UCSB. And then I started rollicking around with all kinds of kids a lot younger than me. Anywhere from 15 to their 20s, but I was kind of in my late 20s. And, uh...I had fun, but I really didn't have anyone I particularly loved. And I still don't, except for loving friends, but I mean I haven't been in love with anyone in years and years. But I have a certain amount of faith that it'll come. View quote
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot. View quote
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