Anthony Burgess Quotes
Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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We create monsters and then we can't control them.
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When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I wanted to be a librarian.
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Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.
