Eleanor Antin Quotes
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
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Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned.
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The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
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I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.
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While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.
