Anthony Boucher Quotes
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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If tomorrow your career ends and you cannot do anything anymore, at least you know you gave everything.
