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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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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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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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
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Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
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When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.
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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.
