Antony Sher Quotes
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
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I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'
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I love horses.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
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There are as many ways to eat a vegan diet as there are people who discover it. Just about any way you do it, provided you focus on unprocessed foods, include vitamin B
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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.
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I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
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Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
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What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and I don't know what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily. I believe I should always be good if the sun always shone, and could enjoy myself very well in Siberia on a fine day. And what can life in town offer in the way of pleasure to equal the delight of any one of the calm evenings I have had this month sitting alone at the foot of the verandah steps, with the perfume of young larches all about, and the May moon hanging low over the beeches, and the beautiful silence made only more profound in its peace by the croaking of distant frogs and hooting of owls?
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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.
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I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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I love playing outsiders, I always do.
Antony Sher
