Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager, there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept.


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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABROMOVIC
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me...
MARINA ABROMOVIC
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic,...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas...
MARINA FIORATO
Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.

In the cradle a child is screaming.

An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
MARINA TSVETAEVA
It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i...
MARINA HYDE
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division bet...
MARINA WARNER
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
MARINA WARNER
Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.
MARINA AMOROSO
This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track wor...
MARINA AMOROSO
There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma...
MARINA AMOROSO
The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa...
MARINA AMOROSO
These Are The Voyages...
MARINA SIRTIS
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing fairies.
MARINA GALLAGHER
You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it...
MARINA LEWYCKA
With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
MARINA SIMCOE
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...
MARINA TSVETAEVA
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and...
MARINA WARNER
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not thi...
MARINA ABROMOVIC
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek charac...
MARINA SIRTIS
They should've done a two-hour, you know, like we did. Then I would've gotten double the money, that...
MARINA SIRTIS
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...
MARINA WARNER
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...
MARINA WARNER
I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same p...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа.
MARINA DYACHENKO
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with w...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC