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I believe that life is shorter that is why we have to make experience longer.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Film Director
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Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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But what is art other than revealing human nature?
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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
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