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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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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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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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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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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Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or twice causing a beneficial mutation to occur. Biologists have not detected any such interventions despite the data and theory they have assembled about mutation. However, I think it is a mistake to expect biological experiments to be able to detect such one-off acts of divine intervention, especially if those acts occurred in the distant past. Science isn't in that line of work.
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People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.
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'Dilwale' has increased my audience reach; I have gained in every way possible.
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I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
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The West is eveningland, the East morningland.
