Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.
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Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.
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Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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‘…Your little feuilleton…recording…my crude nabob’s philistinism…’
