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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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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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
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Semiconductor research and the Nobel Prize in physics seem to be contradictory since one may come to the conclusion that such a complicated system like a semiconductor is not useful for very fundamental discoveries.
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Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
