Antony Sher Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
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Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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If somebody mistreats you, treat 'em good. That kills 'em.
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The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
Antony Sher
