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Anthony Powell Quotes

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000

Topics

Children Parents Disappointment Early

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

Hope People Writing Strong Think

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

John Frankenheimer

Control You More Director Found

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

Life Wife Yourself You Said Try

I realized I wasn't a good employee because I was too busy listening to people's personal problems to do work.

Work Good People Listening Busy

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

Think You Sometimes Will Out Just

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

Change Hope Earth New Vote Him

I could never know someone who could hurt someone else and not feel like a horrible person.

Hurt Feel Someone Person Know Never

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

Father Childhood Death Story Guilt

It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.

Stephen Fincher

Alone Government Free Create Leave

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

Life You Look Television Make Than

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Father Children Way Own Make Should

I was kind of lucky because I was fit and healthy when I was in my teens, got a bit wild in my 20s, and stopped round about my 30s.

Healthy Kind Lucky Wild Got Because

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