Antony Sher Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.
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We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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'Maternity,' it has been said, 'is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.'
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.
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I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.
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The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.
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But were there ever anyWrith'd not of passed joy?The feel of not to feel it,When there is none to heal it,Nor numbed sense to steel it,Was never said in rhyme.
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You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
Antony Sher
