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If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.

Marina Abramovic

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Marina Abramovic
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 30
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Belgrade
Serbia
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I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
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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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Americans don't like European movies.
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Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
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The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
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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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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
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Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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