Platon Antoniou Quotes
People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Europe can be saved.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
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I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.
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People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.
