Marilyn Minter Quotes
I still don't feel like I've made it. I can't imagine ever feeling like I've made it.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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No man fails who does his best.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
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I want to love. I want to enjoy life.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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I still don't feel like I've made it. I can't imagine ever feeling like I've made it.
