Mark Burnett Quotes

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

Mark Burnett

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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.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Single
  • Moment

• Tech companies tend to do tech best.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Best
  • Tend
  • Tech

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Power
  • Path

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• 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.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • You
  • Look
  • Dirty

• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Kind
  • Eyes
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Commitment
  • Test

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Father
  • Anxiety
  • Afraid

• 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.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Way
  • Problems
  • Environmental

• The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Stupid

• What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Support

• You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • World
  • Perfect

• I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • Music

• And raw in fields the rude militia swarms,Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense,In peace a charge, in war a weak defence;Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,And ever but in times of need at hand.

  

  John Dryden
  • War
  • Peace
  • Hand

• There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.

  

  George Eliot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Death

• I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it steroids. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.

  

  Adam Dunn
  • Natural
  • Big
  • Steroids

• You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

  

  Mark Burnett