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David Antin Quotes

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

David Antin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

Jenny Han

Experience American Media See Rare

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Andrew Denton

Work Comedy You Hard Middle-Aged

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

Rosie Perez

Dance Rest Face Hell Fierce Doing

I'm a fry lover.

Michelle Obama

Lover Fry

Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.

Jean Chatzky

Women Men Risks Financial More Take

I told my wife, 'One woman, lots of toys!'

Jason Momoa

Wife Woman Toys Lots

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

Christopher Hitchens

Time Appreciate Now Will Naive See

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Penelope Lively

Memory Way Always Been Linear Which

After the smoke clears, I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

Shaun Alexander

People Think You Smoke Know Say

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Maria Sibylla Merian

Nature Time Art Victory Conquer

I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.

Lindsey Wixson

Good I Am Hair Measure Look Going

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

Kelsea Ballerini

Think Artists Who I Think Else Then