Mark Burnett Quotes
I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
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We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.
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I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.
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You can't just yell jokes at people.
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There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.
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I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
