David Antin Quotes

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

David Antin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1932

Topics

MoneyLanguageYouLoseChoicePay

I really got used to playing Maura.

Jeffrey Tambor

PlayingUsedGotReally

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

Jean Nidetch

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In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.

Michael Dirda

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Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.

Ana de Armas

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My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

Rita Rudner

MotherThreeTwoOnlyThemWere

It's funny - sometimes people think we, as actors, have this wide range of choices of the roles we're doing, and in a lot of ways, when you're a younger actor, or just if you want to make a living in the business, you take your opportunities where they come.

Mike O'Malley

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I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

Joseph Barbera

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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Dennis Ritchie

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That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

Dawn French

GreatWeirdYouShameBeingGet

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

Chelsea Clinton

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I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.

Christa Campbell

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When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn't happy, not sure about this acting thing.

Brian J. Smith

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