Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
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‘it excites the pancreas to fresh efforts’
