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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• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• 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

• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Adventure

• 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

• The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Father
  • Justice

• I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Road

• A screenwriter is wise to have a life elsewhere.

  

  Frederic Raphael
  • Life
  • Wise

• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Power

• 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