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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. — David Antin

Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness. — Amish Tripathi

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. — David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. — David Antin

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. — David Antin

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. — David Antin

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. — David Antin

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. — David Antin

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge; — Aristotle.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin

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

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. — David Antin

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. — Robert Breault

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics. — Aamir Khan

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

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. — David Antin

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. — David Antin

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. — David Antin

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. — David Antin

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. — Jim Rohn

I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel. — Marge Piercy

The margin between success and drama is fractional. — Jacky Ickx

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

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself. — James Stewart

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. — David Antin

Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages. — Steven Tyler

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin

She don't know how much I need her
She don't know I'd fall apart
Without her kiss without her touch
Without her faithful lovin' arms — Andy Griggs

An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently — David Antin

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

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds. — Friedrich Schiller

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

What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government. — S. Hunter Nisbet

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. — David Antin

Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road. — Julia Quinn

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. — David Antin

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

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out. — David Antin

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. — David Antin

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. — David Antin