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Quote by Shahzia Sikander
So what I can control is the work that I make.
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The speaker draws a clear boundary around personal responsibility: they can control the work they produce, but not everything beyond it. The sentence focuses attention on making the work itself rather than on results or other people’s responses.
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- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), “Shahzia Sikander: The Complete Transcript of the Interview”
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