Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
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I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'
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Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
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I don't eat white breads, and I'm off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I've learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it's pretty fascinating!
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For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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All art is a confession.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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Quoyle large, white, stumbling along going nowhere
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
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I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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…British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…
