Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
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I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
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I'm as disappointed as everybody else on my team. We wanted to go into the holidays with a win. We'll have to get this one out of our system and come back to work.
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Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.
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'...I’m a typical Englishman of my class - a crank idealist.'
