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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
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You know the movie Rashomon from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
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We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.
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Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
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If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
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I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.
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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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