Mark Burnett Quotes
My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."
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Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice.
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The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
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In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.
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The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.
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My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.
