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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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Honor your commitments with integrity.
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There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
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Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
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Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
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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.
