Antonia White Quotes
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
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There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.
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Two hands are better than four sometimes.
