David Antin Quotes
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Elliott Erwitt -
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
