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Marina Abramovic Quotes

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

Marina Abramovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Attitude Art Me Colleagues Doing

I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.

Robert Michael Morris

Good Background Catholic I Came Came

I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.

Government Forward Look Tax Done

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

Direction Actor Who Appreciates

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Someone You Look Dangerous Will He

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Michael Patrick King

Women Me Writing Know Way Room

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Grow Want Boy Grow Up Up Little

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

Jonathan Levine

Think Trying You Career Want Never

Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.

Words People Laugh You Bad Down

I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.

Believe Think Reality Problem You

For me, people see me working with my celebrity clients, but it's important to show people how they can make their lives their own red carpet every day.

Day Red People Me Every Day Clients

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

Fun Skiing Racing Horse Grandfather

If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres.

Good Care Good Movie Movie About

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