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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. ↗

— David Antin

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

— David Antin

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

— David Antin

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We're all the harshest judges of ourselves. ↗

— Susan Anton

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

— David Antin

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

— David Antin

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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. ↗

— David Antin

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As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. ↗

— Mary Antin

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His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

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If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

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