David Antin Quotes
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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The club scene is terrible.
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The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.
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I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
