Anthony Burgess Quotes
'How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.'
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.
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I auditioned for 'Mad Men.' I auditioned for 'Top of the Lake.' I obviously auditioned for 'West Wing,' so I still get excited when I get offered stuff. Like, a part of me thinks, 'They think I can do it! That's awesome!' And that's a part of me I have to squash; otherwise, I would do everything just because people gave it to me.
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Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
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... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)
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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
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'How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.'
