Anthony Burgess Quotes
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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They can say anything they want to say Try to bring me down But I won't face the ground
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While speaking in ideology, and from within ideology we have to outline a discourse which tries to break with ideology, in order to dare to be the beginning of a scientific (i.e. subject-less) discourse on ideology.
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It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.
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Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
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‘I know what is love. Love is man and woman in bed.’
