Antony Gormley Quotes
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I like to discover new things.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
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I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
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There are too many 'creative writing' courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
