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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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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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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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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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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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing that David Hume and Adam Smith were friends made sense.
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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.
