Billie Burke Quotes

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

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• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Being
  • Pressure
  • Smarter

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Children
  • Think

• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Stand

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Athlete

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• To every little girl her father is a hero.

  

  Alexandra Kerry
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Hero

• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  

  Michelangelo
  • God
  • Art
  • Desire

• Our customers are worldwide themselves - the Middle East, the Far East, Europe.

  

  Jenny Packham

• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Wonderful
  • Intellectual

• If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

  

  Billie Burke
  • Art