Anthony Burgess Quotes
I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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I love books.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
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The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
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We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.
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Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.
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I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
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I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.
