Marina Abramovic Quotes
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
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From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.
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Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
