Antonio Lobo Antunes Quotes

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

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• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

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• I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

  

  Foster Friess
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• By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

  

  Sage Stallone
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• Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

  

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• Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

  

  Danny Meyer
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• My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.

  

  Joanna Going
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• Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

  

  Dean Kamen
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• I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

  

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• Into The Gloss is buoyed by the people on it, the people who read it and discuss it, and the people who work on it.

  

  Emily Weiss
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• I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

  

  Christina Ricci
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• Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

  

  Conner Eldridge
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• There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

  

  Brian Greene
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• L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

  

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• My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

  

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• Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.

  

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• Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.

  

  Amy N. Stewart
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• After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

  

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• Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.

  

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• The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.

  

  Bruno Bauer
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• Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Gardens
  • Fertilizer
  • Cabbages