Antony Sher Quotes
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.Antony Sher
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
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I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.
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When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
Antony Sher
