Anthony Powell Quotes
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
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That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.
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To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.
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Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.
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The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.
