Anthony Burgess Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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I do get free stuff.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers -
Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
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You never know what's going to happen with television these days.
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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.
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To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
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I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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It's sapiens to be homo.
