Marina Abramovic Quotes

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Marina Abramovic

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• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Money
  • Job
  • Dream

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Job
  • Kill

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Work
  • Creative
  • Same

• You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Guy
  • You
  • Play

• Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Stars
  • Just
  • Turn

• Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Money
  • Want
  • Security

• A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Part
  • Girls
  • Script

• I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Law
  • New York
  • Forward

• My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who 'reduced to absurdity' 'the wisdom of this world' (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Creation

• So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Father
  • Persons
  • Tears

• I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • Good
  • Poverty
  • Empowering

• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Hand
  • Dog

• Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Sacrifice