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My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings

Madonna Ciccone

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.
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Art Film Form
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
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Hurt Love Strong Women
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
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Age Forty Idiot
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I’m feminine. So I relate to feminine men.
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Guy Men Thinking
People have this idea that if you’re sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there’s nothing else you could possibly offer.
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Beautiful Idea People
I’ve never really lived a conventional life, so I think it’s quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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Choices Foolish Thinking
If you don’t vote, you’re going to get a spanking.
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People Spanking Vote
When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.
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Negative Photography Turn
And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn’t fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.
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Boy Girl School
I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.
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Beautiful Growing School
I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
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Inspiring People Thinking
We’ve made so many advances in other areas – civil rights, gay rights – but ageism is still an area that’s taboo and not talked about and dealt with.
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Gay Made Right
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
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Punk Rock Thinking
When I think about popular culture, I can’t help but think that we’re living in the age of loneliness. There’s this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.
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Loneliness Real Thinking
The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
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Idea People Perspective
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don’t worry about that.
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Dangerous Show Worry

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