Anthony Burgess Quotes
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
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This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.
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Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows.
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The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
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I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.
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My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
