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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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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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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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.
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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.
