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Anthony Powell Quotes

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Process Portrait Anything Going Who

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.

Joe R. Lansdale

Day Sometimes Write Two Up Get

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

Money World Puzzle You Actor Out

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Waiting Why Ominous Rooms

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

Finding Shot Originally

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Smart People Thinking You Right See

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Sojourner Truth

Women Great Men You Bad Will

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

Yourself Enough You Never See Your

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Robbie Williams

Music I Am Looking Rules Mean Where

When I graduated from high school, I weighed 125 pounds because of wrestling. Suddenly, I realized I could eat whatever I wanted - plus, creatine was new at the time. I went from 125 to 175 pounds, working out like crazy. I was yoked. But I wasn't drinking enough fluids and ended up with a kidney stone - and 3 weeks of pure hell.

Time School Crazy High School Hell

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

Love Father House Born Variety Just

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Jonas Armstrong

Live Time Think Bag Meaning You

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

Love Animal Process You Wrong Go

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