Antony Gormley Quotes

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Antony Gormley

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
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  • Try

• If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Television
  • Too Much

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
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• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
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• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
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• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
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• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fool
  • Down
  • Feet

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
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  • Food
  • Grew

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

  

  A. James Clark
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  • Nice
  • Own

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

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  • People
  • Crime
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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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• For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

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  • Magic

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

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• most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

  

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• What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to be the way to improve educational outcomes for poor children of color. And we see a consensus build on the left and in the center that this is going to be a transformative education movement like none other we've seen in American history.

  

  Dana Goldstein
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  • School
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• After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

  

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  • Writing
  • Real

• When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

  

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  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Space