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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There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
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If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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Overall, it was a pretty dull year. A few were okay - the bear that wanted the beer, the Fabio spot.
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I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.
