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David Antin

"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."

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"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."

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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

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"Children see beauty in everything."

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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."

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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."

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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"Children are great observers."

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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."

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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

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

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

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

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"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."

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

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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."

Family

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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."

Society

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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."

Creativity

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

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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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