Marilyn Minter Quotes
I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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Music is a language.
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Coffee is my water now.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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My dogs are crazy. They're always getting into some kind of trouble... but then again, they're my most loyal friends.
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.
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Our faith in him was often taxed and strained to the uttermost, but it never failed…we were at times stunned, grieved, and greatly bewildered; but our hearts believed while they ached and bled.
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I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.
