Marina Abramović: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Marina Abramović said elsewhere, not written here

That performance art has become a part of mainstream art.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗

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Mike Skinner English rapper

Original Pirate Material.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

I remember the day. It was just such a big day. It happened to be the same day that I got to be on the cover of Forbes. And I remember just being so overwhelmed by the opportunity that we had at hand, that we had closed this $1.45 billion fund - first time - probably in the top five of first-time funds ever that had been closed.

Recorded Kathleen J. McInnis, Smart Women, Smart Power podcast, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 28 August 2024 source ↗

Reece Shearsmith British actor, comedian and writer

Managing to find my wife and trapping her into marrying me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗

Jim Kerr Scottish singer and songwriter

That’s easy. I’ve consistently punched above my weight.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗

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Question What scares you about getting older? Time & hindsight

That my nose and chin will touch.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

Exactly what I am now.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗

Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight

Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?

Recorded University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen source ↗