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I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Serbia
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramoviæ
Marina Abramovicz
M. Abramovic
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You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't it's impossible.
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I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say Oh my god! and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.
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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
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