Anthony Powell Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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When you give, you receive.
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You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.
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The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
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To give people that first start in life is a tremendous privilege. It's one of the great joys of being part of a growing company.
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I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
