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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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
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Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.
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As far as the command centers are concerned in Raqqa and to a lesser degree Mosul, cut those off. Do the same kind of thing that we did with Sinjar , working with our embedded special forces with the Kurds, shut off the supply route, soften them up, then we go in with specials ops followed by our air force to take them over. Those are things that work.
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The West is eveningland, the East morningland.
