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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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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 think what draws people into 'Supernatural' is that when all is said and done, and the ash from the various apocalypses settle, it's about the brothers. Even though there's cool fights in this and cool special effects, and there's superheroes... in the end, it is about family. Two families: the family by blood and family by choice.
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Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
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Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
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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.
