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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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.
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Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.
