Mark Burnett Quotes

So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.

Mark Burnett

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• I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Alone

• No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Shocked
  • Crier

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Music
  • Girl

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • True
  • Man

• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Desire
  • Pressure

• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Play
  • Guitar

• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Books
  • Fact

• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Name
  • Worth

• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Love
  • Group

• I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People
  • Long

• In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

  

  Aimee Mullins

• Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Country
  • Honor

• When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Up

• So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.

  

  Mark Burnett
  • People
  • Good
  • Team