Marilyn Minter Quotes
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Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.
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I just try and focus on having fun on the road and making the best music I can.
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But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.
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One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
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Only be an artist if you have no choice!
