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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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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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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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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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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This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.
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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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Never live with someone that won the Heisman.
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There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.'
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.
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In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'
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For me, love is magic; it's about trust and understanding. It's putting the other person before you effortlessly.
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…no European whore’s mock-respectability.
