Anthony Burgess Quotes
The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
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Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
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conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
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The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.
