Chris Burke Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
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Everyone who watches Adult Swim knows there's a sound to it, a feeling that's nostalgic sometimes, but then it's also different and outside the box.
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I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.
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For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.
