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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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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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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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
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It is important to be in love with love.
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I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
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Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
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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.
