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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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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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.
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I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
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People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves....I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers.
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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
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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
