Billy Burke Quotes
I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
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Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.
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If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.
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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
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I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.
