Anthony Burgess Quotes
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
R. A. Salvatore -
My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
Ike Barinholtz -
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Katey Sagal -
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
Calvin Johnson -
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury -
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals -
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
Ferdowsi -
I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
Sam Altman -
It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
Patrick Kane -
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
F. Sionil Jose -
I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
Xavier Dolan
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As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig -
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
Laura Dern -
Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
Barton Gellman -
You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.
Victoria Moran -
You're unsure and you're not ready so that must mean I want you You're unavailable and disinterested and to you I look for comfort
Alanis Morissette -
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.
Margaret Thatcher
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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
Tom Araya Slayer -
One healthy thing I'd like for players to know, whether they're active or former, is you likely can't replicate the thrill of playing before 100,000 people and big hits and making that much money. We can get ourselves into trouble trying to.
Chris Borland -
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
Terence McKenna -
There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
Steve Erickson -
Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
Ted Shackelford -
…satyromaniacal…
Anthony Burgess