Eleanor Antin Quotes

I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

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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.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Parents
  • Path
  • Successful

• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Chaos
  • Consciousness
  • Irony

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Happy
  • Boring
  • Then

• Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Grind

• 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.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Proud
  • Excited
  • Individuals

• The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Attention
  • Struggle
  • Daughter

• 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.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Family
  • Trust

• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Myself

• I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • True
  • Movie
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fun

• And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Think
  • Said
  • Stand

• I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Dream

• It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Water

• What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Character
  • Words
  • Writers

• I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

  

  Eleanor Antin
  • Enough
  • Purist