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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Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.
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Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
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Two hands are better than four sometimes.
