Antony Gormley Quotes

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 30, 1950

Topics

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I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

Andrew Zimmern

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I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doing 'Hamlet' in Milwaukee and a version of 'Cyrano' that my wife wrote for me on a bus-and-truck tour.

John Cullum

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Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.

John Lanchester

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Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

Matt Mullenweg

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I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Jean Reno

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Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you?

Judy Blume

WorkGodCollegeBetterYouFind

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

Courtney Love

LifeYouWriteNeedOwnYour

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

Chris Robinson

StarsThinkingYouNewKnowRock

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

Clancy Brown

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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

Boman Irani

WorldFindImportantMostCalling

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

EnvironmentalFlyGoCommercial

We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a beautiful forward movement in that direction with McQueen telling '12 Years A Slave,' with Coogler telling 'Fruitvale,' and with Daniels telling 'The Butler.'

Ava DuVernay

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