Antony Gormley Quotes
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
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People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
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Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
