Antony Gormley Quotes
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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So, I'm on the satellite every Sunday, no matter where we are, with the Rams. Turn on the satellite; got to watch the Rams.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.
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I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
