David Antin Quotes
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
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They will explain themselves - as all poems should do without any comment.
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
