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Marina Abramovic Quotes

I have this exercise that I propose to everybody: Hug a tree and complain for a minimum 15 minutes. Be yourself, and do something that you really feel deeply.

Marina Abramovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: serbian
Birth: November 30, 1946

Topics

Tree Yourself Be Yourself Feel You

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

Mother Remember Finding Mud Sting

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Matthew Reilly

Writing Action Loved Die Lost Hard

Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.

Amir Khan

Mistakes People Me Game Long Boxing

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Stephen Breyer

Politics Political You Over Point

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

Rupert Graves

Boy Way More Rebellious Been Like

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Michael Morpurgo

Funny Children Pet Care Duty Owe

I mean, do you really think Paul Krugman is checking his Twitter account every day to read what I write? Of course not. Every other day maybe, but not every day.

Michael Showalter

Day Think You Every Day Mean Write

I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.

Colm Toibin

Mountains People Speak You Three

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Claire Danes

Career Place Comfortable Celebrity

A brand can have huge hype but still only be a tiny business.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Business Brand Hype Only Still Tiny

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

Peter Singer

Decision Government World Search

McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.

Peter Bergen

History War Generation American Only