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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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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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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Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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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.
