Eleanor Antin Quotes
There was an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here in California we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
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I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.
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The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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There was an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here in California we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.
