Anthony Burgess Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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No two wars are identical.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
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About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.
