David Antin Quotes
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.
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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
