Marina Abramovic Quotes
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.
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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
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If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.
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It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
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Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
