Billie Burke Quotes
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.
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While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.
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If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.
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Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.
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There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
