Marina Abramovic Quotes

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Marina Abramovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FuturePastPresentProjectAlways

The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.

Andrew Solomon

HonestyPastPresentProblemYou

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

John Cena

MyselfI AmPeopleMeWantAccept

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

Max Cleland

TimeWinStrategyNeedExitLeave

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

Sturgill Simpson

GoodGreatJobRailroadSalaryHad

I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.

Trisha Yearwood

HopeNeverThingsGetBetweenPick

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Tommy Lee Jones

WarPeopleMeOldAttackSense

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

Mary Steenburgen

FreeNewAfricaStartedUsArtists

Not everybody has the chance to grow up on an island.

Dimitri Payet

ChanceGrowIslandGrow UpUp

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

Debra Winger

WomenAgeBeautifulPeopleMeThink

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

Christina Ricci

WorkGrowLearnActingI CanBuild

Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.

Corbin Bernsen

WorkFamilySuccessBusinessMoney

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

Alice Dreger

NatureAgeTruthOrganizationCare

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