Anthony Caro Quotes
Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
