Marilyn Minter Quotes
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.
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I think 2020 can still be my time.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties! (p. 113).
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To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.
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If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly.
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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.
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I'm sure I passed on some things that will probably be successful.
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Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.
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When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'
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Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
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I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.
