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.

Marina Abramovic

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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.

  

  Nate Parker
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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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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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!

  

  Zara Larsson
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• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
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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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
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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.

  

  Patrick Ewing
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• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
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• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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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?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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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.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
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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.

  

  Karen Traviss
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• You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
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• I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

  

  Cedric Richmond
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• Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.

  

  Zendaya
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• I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

  

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• I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • 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.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Believe
  • Experience