Marina Abramovic Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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But I think we need the international market.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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Western Christianised Europe has values and experience that is worth defending.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
