Anthony Horowitz Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
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But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
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Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
