Marina Abramovic Quotes
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
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I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
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Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
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...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
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Artists can do whatever they want!
