Billie Burke Quotes
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
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Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.
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But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
