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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People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
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If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.
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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.
