Anthony Venn-Brown Quotes
It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
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God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.
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Following your heart and working really, really hard is the best thing you can do, and just try not to be too hard on yourself.
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It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.
