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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Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
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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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Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.
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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.
