Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes
I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
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I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
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I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
