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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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
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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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American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
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This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and reduce unemployment.
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Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.
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All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.
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To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
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It's sapiens to be homo.
