Anthony Burgess Quotes
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.
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I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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'Prison religion'...
