Anthony Burgess Quotes
...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'
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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。
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I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me.
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All of us live in history, whether we are aware of it or not, and die in drama. The sense of history and of drama comes to a man not because of who he is or what he does but flickeringly, as he is caught up in events, as his personality reacts, as he sees for a moment his place in the great flowing river of humanity.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.
