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David Antin Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated May 2024
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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
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While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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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.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
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The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
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Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
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I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
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I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
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