Anthony Trollope Quotes
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I will keep working hard!
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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I have a great office.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
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When we first entered the music business, we didn't know very much about recording. Then, after working with Mutt Lange, we thought we knew everything there was about the studio. But just as we were getting cocky, along came video and we had whole new set of rules and regulations to learn about - it was a totally alien form to us. After all, we were just kids off the streets of Sheffield, what did we know about television except how to turn one on?
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Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.
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Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
