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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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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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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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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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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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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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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I swear to God, that movie comes up more in my life than any other movie. Someone says 'Bowfinger' once every month or two to me. And how many years ago did that come out?
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I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
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The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.
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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?
