David Antin Quotes - Page 2

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• I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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  Experts, Want, Range

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• My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

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  Mother, Widows, Chickens

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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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  Character, Mouths, Novel

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• I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

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  Hebrew, Remember, Enough

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• A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

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  Lying, Men, White

  David Antin (1976). “Talking at the boundaries”, W W Norton & Co Inc

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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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  Thinking, Want, Welcome

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• For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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  Song, Circles, Corny

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• I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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  Distinction, Unsatisfied

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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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  Song, Thinking, Speech

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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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  Thinking, Giving, Use

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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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  Mother, Husband, Appreciate

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