Antony Gormley Quotes
'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
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There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.
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The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?
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Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
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'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.
