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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But I don't feel the need to be famous.
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I just try to be myself. But I will tell you this: I will not back down to anyone.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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'...I’m a typical Englishman of my class - a crank idealist.'
