Marina Abramovic Quotes
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
