Anthony Burgess Quotes
'But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.'
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.
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I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.
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The only thing that is constant is change.
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'But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.'
