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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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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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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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.
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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.
