Marina Abramovic Quotes
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
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I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.
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I never thought people would be remotely interested in my silly little life, but I'm really glad that they are.
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We must remind our people that a great majority of Catholics including their own families were once themselves immigrants forced to endure the nativist bigotry of earlier generations who spoke about Catholics with the same disparaging vitriol being hurled at the new immigrants of now.
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Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
