Antony Gormley Quotes
The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
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I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?
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The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
