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I liked the way that film took realistic events and added this slightly out-of-kilter perspective. My character in that film was, in one sense, a caricature of a killer, but there was also a sense of mystery surrounding him that captured the imagination. Fargo (1996) was an exciting experience for me largely because of the approach the Coen brothers took. It was the antithesis of Armageddon (1998/I). It was low-budget, a very guerrilla-style approach to filmmaking that made its own rules and was very specific in what it was trying to accomplish. --on Fargo (1996).

- Peter Stormare

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn`t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.

- Aaron Copland

The issue all around is quality. We want to maintain the high quality we have in Zionsville, and Wal-Mart represents the antithesis of that, I think,

- Linda Davis

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

- Jonathan Shapiro

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

- John Clayton

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

- Wole Soyinka

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

- Douglas Wilson

The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought.

- Alejandro Moreno

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

- Alex Kornhauser

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn`t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

- Aaron Copland