Marina Abramovic Quotes
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.
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People want to feel good about the choices they make. They want to know they're choosing material that's not going to harm the environment.
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
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Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
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There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
