All David Antin Quotes
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
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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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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
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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.
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I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
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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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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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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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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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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
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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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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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