Marilyn Minter Quotes

I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.

Marilyn Minter

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Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

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With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Robert Smith

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I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

Tori Kelly

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Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Tom Freston

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It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

Rush Limbaugh

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Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

Rosie O'Donnell

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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.

Mary Beard

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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Joseph Stalin

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I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Denzel Washington

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I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.

Demetri Martin

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Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

Dennis Christopher

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