Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
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When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
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You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.
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If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
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When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
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A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
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The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
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The West is eveningland, the East morningland.
