Anthony Powell Quotes
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.
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Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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When I come home, I am literally the most popular person with my friends' parents for doing 'The Archers.'
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By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.
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We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.
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I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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It is the nature of English society to do precisely that: to keep the lower classes low and raise the upper classes even higher.
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There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
