Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
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I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.
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I try not to assign labels to myself. Sometimes I shop in the plus section, and sometimes I don't. I feel we attach too much significance to labels, and ultimately, it doesn't really matter.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
