Marina Abramovic Quotes
When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
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Here in a little lonely roomI am master of earth and sea,And the planets come to me.
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The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
