Antony Gormley Quotes
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
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I came from nothing; but from whereCome these undying thoughts I bear?
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What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
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Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.
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Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.
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We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
