Marina Abramovic Quotes
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.
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No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.
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There is no time like the pleasant.
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I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.
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Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the 'Obamaphone' program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.
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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
