Anthony Burgess Quotes
'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
Quotes to Explore
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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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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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.
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The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
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Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.
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Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.
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I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
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'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
