Anthony Burgess Quotes
There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
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Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.
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As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.
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Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.
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Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.
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There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!
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There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.
