Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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We must never bend too much.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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I want to be up front racing.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
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I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'
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Democracy begins as an act of imagination about people. For this reason democracy is a doctrine of social criticism.
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…workmen who wanted (a) the white man out…,(c) sinecures
