Anthony Boucher Quotes
Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy - the joy of the man who know that he has killed wisely and well.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Go you and, with such glorious hues,Live with proud peacocks in green parks.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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The person of benevolence never worries.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
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I never liked the term 'fans.'
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And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....
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Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy - the joy of the man who know that he has killed wisely and well.
