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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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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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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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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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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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All actions without love are just like dust in the air.
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I stayed in a dark corner of the house dreaming the story of the poverella's waterlogged, lifeless body, a silver anchovy to be preserved in salt. And whenever, later, I played at whipping the air to get it to whine, I thought of her, the woman in salt. I heard the voice of her drowning, as she slid through the water all night, as far as Capo Miseno. Now, just thinking about it, I felt like whipping the air of the pinewood harder and harder, like a child, to evoke the spirits, perhaps to chase them away, and the more energy I put into it, the sharper the whistle became. I burst into laughter, alone, seeing myself like that, a thirty-eight-year-old woman in serious trouble who suddenly returns to her childhood game. Yes, I said to myself, we do, we imagine, even as adults, a lot of silly things, out of joy or exhaustion. And I laughed, waving that long thin branch, and felt more and more like laughing.
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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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.
