David Antin Quotes - Page 2

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• Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

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  Meaningful, Children, Sight

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• I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

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  Long, Format, Prose

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• I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

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  Kids, College, Ideas

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• I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

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  Writing, Remember, Imagine

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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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• 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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  Choices, Pay, Language

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• I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

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  Thinking, Newton, James Watt

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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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  Believe, Thinking, Focus

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• Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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  Different, Stories, Narrative

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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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