Mark Burnett Quotes
You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
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Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
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The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
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Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.
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Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
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During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.
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A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
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You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.
