Anthony Pratt Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.
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Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.
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I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
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As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
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I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.
