Anthony Burgess Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
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Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
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I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
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…no European whore’s mock-respectability.
