Marina Abramovic Quotes
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
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I was a terrible waiter.
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I take a magnesium supplement before my workout because it prevents cramping.
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We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
