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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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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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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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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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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Whether elected or appointedHe considers himself the Lord's annointed,And indeed the ointment lingers on himSo thick you can't get your fingers on him.
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It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
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I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.
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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
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I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.
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I love my work - it's what I know how to do best.
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If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil. That means the destruction of the Iraqi national identity, since the Iraqis are committed to their principles and rights according to international law and the U.N. charter.
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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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.
