Marilyn Minter Quotes
I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I love cycling.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than the album will even hold. You record like 300 songs and only 12 songs go on the album. It takes time. But if you love what you do, it works out.
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I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
