Marina Abramovic Quotes
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.
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I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.
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I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
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With 'Hannibal,' it's like reactive scoring so I don't get ahead. I don't read a script; I don't want to know what's going to happen until its happening in front of me and I'm able to have an instrument in my hands that I'm playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.
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I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
