Anthony Burgess Quotes
'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
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I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
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I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.
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The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
