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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."

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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."
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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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"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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"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."
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