Eleanor Antin Quotes
The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I always pray before fighting. I pray in the corner, in the hotel room – maybe two hours before I go to the arena. It takes me far – I see a big difference when you pray and go into a fight; you have more strength and also you know God’s helping you.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.
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The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
